Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 151
"Why, there he was reading a moment ago, and now he's vanished out of sight.
Who acts: SOLDIER · What happens: read, vanish · To what, where: SOLDIER, sight
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SOLDIER), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reading | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 reading | expl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reading | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reading | aux |
| 7 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Why | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reading | obj |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 reading | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 vanished | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 vanished | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 vanished | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 vanished | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 vanished | aux:pass |
| 16 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reading | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 vanished | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read in a quote | past · progressive | SOLDIER | there | moment | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | vanish in a quote | present · passive | SOLDIER | sight | now | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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