Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 132
But after a time a Barin or Seigneur steals the mill.
Who acts: Barin · What happens: steal · To what, where: mill
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 (Barin), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 steals | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steals | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Barin | det |
| 6 | Barin | Barin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 steals | nsubj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Seigneur | cc |
| 8 | Seigneur | Seigneur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Barin | conj |
| 9 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mill | det |
| 11 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steals | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 steals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | present | a Barin or Seigneur | the mill | time | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mill=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.
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