Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 13
He was reading here a moment ago, and now he's disappeared."
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: read, be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reading | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reading | aux |
| 3 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 reading | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 reading | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 disappeared | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 disappeared | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 disappeared | cop |
| 13 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reading | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 disappeared | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 reading | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past · progressive | Soldier | here | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | present | Soldier | now | disappeared property | 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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