Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 58
There he could hear that, in the farthest cottage, a wedding was being celebrated.
Who acts: FIDDLER, farthest cottage · What happens: hear, celebrate · To what, where: that, farthest cottage, wedding
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 (FIDDLER, farthest cottage), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 hear | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hear | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cottage | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cottage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cottage | det |
| 9 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 cottage | amod |
| 10 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 celebrated | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wedding | det |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 16 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | FIDDLER | that | the farthest cottage; there | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | the farthest cottage not said here | a wedding | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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