Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 27
Afterwards there came a whole roomful of evil ones, and they asked the rich moujik:
Who acts: pots · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: whole roomful, rich moujik
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 (pots), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 roomful | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 roomful | amod |
| 6 | roomful | roomful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ones | case |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 roomful | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moujik | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moujik | amod |
| 16 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a whole roomful of evil ones | there | afterwards property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location roomful=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | pots = pot | the rich moujik | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=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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