Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 133
The old people are in despair, but the golden-combed cock flies after the mill, perches on the Barin's gates, and cries--
Who acts: old people, combed cock · What happens: be, comb, fly, perch, cry · To what, where: despair, gates
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 (old people, combed cock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 despair | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 despair | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 despair | case |
| 6 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flies | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 flies | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 combed | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 golden | punct |
| 12 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cock | amod |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flies | nsubj |
| 14 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 despair | acl:relcl |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 mill | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mill | det |
| 17 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flies | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perches | punct |
| 19 | perches | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 flies | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 gates | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Barin | det |
| 22 | Barin | Barin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 gates | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Barin | case |
| 24 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 perches | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cries | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cries | cc |
| 27 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 flies | conj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the old people | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | comb | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fly | present | the combed cock | despair not said here | after the mill | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location despair=Theme | |||
| 4 | perch | present | the combed cock not said here | the Barin's gates | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on gate=Location | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | present | the combed cock not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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