Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 120
When the moujik comes to the place where the pea-stalk had been, "he looks around--no pea-stalk is there."
Who acts: moujik, pea stalk · What happens: come, look around, be · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moujik, pea stalk), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 comes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moujik | det |
| 3 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 looks | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 been | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stalk | det |
| 10 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stalk | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 pea | punct |
| 12 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 been | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 looks | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looks | nsubj |
| 18 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | around | around | ADV | _ | 18 looks | advmod |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 there | punct |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 stalk | det |
| 22 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stalk | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 pea | punct |
| 24 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 there | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | cop |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 looks | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 looks | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the moujik | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | look around in a quote | present | moujik | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | no pea stalk | there 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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