Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 62
A moujik was driving along one night with a load of pots.
Who acts: moujik · What happens: drive
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moujik | det |
| 2 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | aux |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 night | nummod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 load | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 load | det |
| 10 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pots | case |
| 12 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 load | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | a moujik | night | with a load of pots | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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