Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 19
The priest's son wasn't a bit afraid, went on reading without a stop right up to daybreak, and in the morning went to the old woman.
Who acts: son · What happens: not be, go · To what, where: reading
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 (son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 priest | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 afraid | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | cop |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 afraid | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bit | det |
| 8 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 afraid | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 reading | case |
| 13 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 stop | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stop | det |
| 16 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 20 daybreak | advmod |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 daybreak | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 daybreak | case |
| 20 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 morning | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 afraid | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 woman | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 woman | amod |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the priest's son | a bit obl:unmarked; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the priest's son not said here | reading | without a stop; up daybreak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up daybreak=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | the priest's son not said here | morning | to the old woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location |
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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