Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 123
Falling into a swamp, he remains there some time.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: fall, remain · To what, where: swamp
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), 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 | Falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 remains | advcl |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 swamp | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 swamp | det |
| 4 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Falling | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Falling | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 remains | nsubj |
| 7 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 remains | advmod |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remains | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | gerund | moujik not said here | into a swamp result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swamp=Result | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | moujik | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/123/