Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 139
The moujik was horrified, and knew not which way to go--whether to keep on or to turn back.
What happens: horrify, not know, go, keep on, turn back · To what, where: moujik, way
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horrified | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | aux:pass |
| 4 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knew | cc |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | parataxis |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 knew | advmod |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 14 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 keep | compound:prt |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 turn | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 turn | mark |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 keep | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 turn | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | the moujik | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not know | past | which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | which way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep on | to-infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | turn back | to-infinitive | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: 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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