Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 6
They rushed about in search of the Soldier; they looked into the stove--
Who acts: devils · What happens: rush, look, search · To what, where: search, Soldier
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 (devils), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 search | case |
| 5 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Soldier | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Soldier | det |
| 8 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 search | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 stove | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stove | det |
| 14 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | devils = devil | search of the Soldier | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | past | devils = devil | into the stove | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into stove=Theme | ||||
| 3 | search | the Soldier | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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