Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 79
So he followed his grandfather's advice, provided himself with a bridle and an aspen cudgel, took his seat in a corner, and waited to see what would happen.
Who acts: help, advice · What happens: follow, provide, take, wait, see, happen · To what, where: help, seat, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (help, advice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 provided | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 So | acl:relcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 grandfather | case |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 advice | punct |
| 9 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 provided | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bridle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bridle | det |
| 13 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 provided | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cudgel | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cudgel | det |
| 16 | aspen | aspen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cudgel | amod |
| 17 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bridle | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 provided | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 seat | nmod:poss |
| 21 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 corner | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 corner | det |
| 24 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 waited | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 waited | cc |
| 27 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 see | mark |
| 29 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 waited | advcl |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 happen | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 happen | aux |
| 32 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 see | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | help | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | provide | past | help's grandfather's advice | help | with a bridle and a aspen cudgel | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with bridle=Theme | |||
| 3 | take | past | help's grandfather's advice not said here | help's seat | a corner | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Value in corner=Location | |||
| 4 | wait | past | help's grandfather's advice not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | help's grandfather's advice not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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