Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 96
"Fedor set off, sat under the bridge, and listened.
Who acts: Fedor · What happens: set off, sit, listen · To what, where: bridge
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 (Fedor), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
| 2 | Fedor | Fedor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 bridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 listened | cc |
| 12 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off in a quote | past | Fedor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | past | Fedor not said here | the bridge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location | ||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | past | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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