Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 169
All this took place towards nightfall, and the Soldier stopped so long at the Miller's that it grew quite dark.
Who acts: this, Soldier, miller · What happens: take, stop, grow · To what, where: place, Miller
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 (this, Soldier, miller), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 6 nightfall | case |
| 6 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Soldier | det |
| 10 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Miller | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Miller | det |
| 16 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stopped | obl |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Miller | case |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 grew | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | advcl |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 dark | advmod |
| 22 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grew | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this | place | towards nightfall | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | stop | past | the Soldier | the Miller | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at miller=Location | |||
| 3 | grow | past | miller | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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