Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 143
When the moujik saw his dog and the corpse grappling with each other, he was delighted that things had turned out so well for himself, and he set off running home with all his might.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: see, be, turn out, set off, run · To what, where: dog, things
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moujik | det |
| 3 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 set | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grappling | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grappling | det |
| 9 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grappling | compound |
| 10 | grappling | grappling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dog | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 saw | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 delighted | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delighted | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 delighted | cop |
| 17 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 turned | mark |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | aux |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 delighted | advcl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 turned | compound:prt |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 well | advmod |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 turned | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 himself | case |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 turned | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 set | nsubj |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 set | compound:prt |
| 32 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 set | advcl |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 running | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 37 might | mark |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 might | det:predet |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 might | nmod:poss |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 running | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the moujik | moujik's dog and the corpse grappling | with each | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | moujik | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn out | past · perfect · passive | things | for moujik; well property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | set off | past | moujik | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | moujik not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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