Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 62
He opened it, and the fox sprang out of the bath-room and ran off home.
Who acts: man, fox · What happens: open, spring out, run off · To what, where: door, bath room
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 (man, fox), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sprang | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | nsubj |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 12 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bath | punct |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sprang | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | man | door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spring out | past | the fox | the bath room | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | the fox not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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