Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 169
No road was to be seen, no kinsmen, no horses.
What happens: see · To what, where: road
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: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seen | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kinsmen | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 kinsmen | det |
| 9 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seen | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 horses | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 horses | det |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kinsmen | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | no road | 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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