Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 140
"Well, whatever happens, I'll go on," he thought; and on he went, his dog running at his heels.
Who acts: whatever, moujik · What happens: happen, go on, think, go, run · To what, where: dog, heels · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (whatever, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 happens | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dog | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dog | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 heels | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heels | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 running | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present | whatever | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go on in a quote | future | moujik | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | moujik | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | moujik | moujik's dog | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run | gerund | moujik not said here | moujik's heels | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Trajectory |
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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