Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 187
When he rises to his feet, he is all overgrown with mosses and shrub (var han overvoxen med Mose og Busker), and when he reaches the outer world he finds all things changed.]
Who acts: guide, han overvoxen, outer world, things · What happens: rise, overgrow, m, reach, find, change · To what, where: feet, guide, Busker · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (guide, han overvoxen, outer world, things), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rises | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rises | nsubj |
| 3 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 reaches | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rises | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overgrown | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 overgrown | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 overgrown | aux:pass |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 overgrown | advmod |
| 11 | overgrown | overgrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rises | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 mosses | case |
| 13 | mosses | moss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 overgrown | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shrub | cc |
| 15 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mosses | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 overvoxen | punct |
| 17 | var | var | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 han | compound |
| 18 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 overvoxen | compound |
| 19 | overvoxen | overvoxen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 med | nsubj |
| 20 | med | m | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mosses | acl:relcl |
| 21 | Mose | Mose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 og | compound |
| 22 | og | og | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Busker | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Busker | Busker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 med | obj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 Busker | punct |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reaches | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 reaches | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 reaches | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 reaches | nsubj |
| 29 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 31 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 world | amod |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 finds | nsubj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 finds | nsubj |
| 34 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 reaches | conj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 things | det |
| 36 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 changed | nsubj |
| 37 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 finds | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 changed | punct |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 37 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | guide | guide's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | overgrow | present · passive | guide | with mosses and shrub; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | m | past | han overvoxen | Busker Mose og | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach | present | guide | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | present | the outer world | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | change | past | all things | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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