Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 136
He walked and walked through woods and bogs, but got nothing for his pains.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: walk, get, pain · To what, where: woods, nothing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bogs | cc |
| 8 | bogs | bog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 woods | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 got | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 pains | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pains | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 got | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | moujik | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | moujik not said here | woods and bogs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | get | past | moujik not said here | nothing | for moujik's pains | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for pain=Source | |||
| 4 | pain | moujik | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=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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