Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 110
Late one evening a certain artisan happened to be returning home from a jovial feast in a distant village.
Who acts: certain artisan · What happens: happen, return · To what, where: jovial feast
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain artisan), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 happened | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 artisan | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 artisan | amod |
| 6 | artisan | artisan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 returning | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 returning | aux |
| 10 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 happened | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 returning | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 feast | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feast | det |
| 14 | jovial | jovial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feast | amod |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returning | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 18 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 village | amod |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feast | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | a certain artisan | evening | late property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive · progressive | a certain artisan not said here | a jovial feast in a distant village | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from feast=Initial_Location |
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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