Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 56
Away he galloped, but all the while he kept an eye on the coffin.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: gallop, keep · To what, where: eye, coffin
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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 galloped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 galloped | nsubj |
| 3 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 while | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 while | det |
| 8 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 galloped | conj |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 eye | det |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 coffin | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coffin | det |
| 15 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | Soldier | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Soldier | a eye | the coffin | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on coffin=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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