Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 139
The guests disperse, the Barin runs after them, and the golden-combed cock seizes the mill and flies away with it.
Who acts: guests, Barin, combed cock · What happens: disperse, run, comb, seize, fly away · 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 (guests, Barin, 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 | 2 guests | det |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 disperse | nsubj |
| 3 | disperse | disperse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 runs | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Barin | det |
| 6 | Barin | Barin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 runs | nsubj |
| 7 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 disperse | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 runs | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seizes | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 seizes | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cock | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 combed | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 golden | punct |
| 15 | combed | comb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cock | amod |
| 16 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seizes | nsubj |
| 17 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 disperse | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mill | det |
| 19 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seizes | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flies | cc |
| 21 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 seizes | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 flies | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flies | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disperse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disperse | present | the guests | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | run | present | the Barin | after guests = guest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | comb | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | seize | present | the combed cock | the mill | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fly away | present | the combed cock not said here | with mill; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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.
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