Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 25
As soon as the fiends had gone away the moujik said to the Fiddler:
Who acts: fiends, moujik · What happens: go away, say · To what, where: Fiddler · 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 (fiends, moujik), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 gone | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 gone | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fiends | det |
| 5 | fiends | fiend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | aux |
| 7 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 gone | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moujik | det |
| 10 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gone | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Fiddler | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fiddler | det |
| 14 | Fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past · perfect | the fiends | away, soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the moujik | the Fiddler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fiddler=Recipient |
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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