Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 137
They were great friends, went to _besyedas_[403] together, in fact, regarded each other as brothers.
Who acts: graves, great friends, fact · What happens: be, go, regard · To what, where: great friends, 403, fact, other
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 (graves, great friends, fact), 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 | 4 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | cop |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | amod |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 friends | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 besyedas | case |
| 8 | _ | _ | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 besyedas | nummod |
| 9 | besyedas | besyeda | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 403 | punct |
| 12 | 403 | 403 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 went | obl |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 403 | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fact | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 fact | case |
| 17 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 regarded | punct |
| 19 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fact | acl |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 regarded | obj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 regarded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | graves = grave | great friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | great friends not said here | 403 | fact | to _ besyedas; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to besyeda=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | regard | participle | fact not said here | each other | as brothers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent other=Theme as brother=Value |
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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