Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 118
They arrived at a dwelling and there they drank and revelled.
Who acts: narrators · What happens: arrive, drink, revell · To what, where: dwelling
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 (narrators), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dwelling | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dwelling | det |
| 5 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drank | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 drank | expl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drank | nsubj |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 revelled | cc |
| 11 | revelled | revell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drank | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | narrators = narrator | a dwelling | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | narrators = narrator | there | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | revell | past | narrators = narrator not said here | tree rules |
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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