Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 143
So he collected all his kinsmen, and set off to fetch his bride.
Who acts: comrade · What happens: collect, set off, fetch · To what, where: kinsmen, bride
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 (comrade), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 collected | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 collected | nsubj |
| 3 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 kinsmen | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 collected | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 collected | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fetch | mark |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 set | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past | comrade | comrade's kinsmen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kinsman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set off | infinitive | comrade not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | comrade not said here | comrade's bride | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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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