Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 154
Next morning, while the family were going about the farmyard, the dog was perfectly quiet.
Who acts: family, dog · What happens: go, be
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 (family, dog), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quiet | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 morning | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 farmyard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmyard | det |
| 11 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 quiet | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 quiet | cop |
| 16 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 17 quiet | advmod |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the family | about the farmyard | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about farmyard=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the dog | morning | perfectly, quiet property | tree rules |
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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