Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 2
There's a wedding going on in the village."
Who acts: wedding · What happens: be, go on · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wedding), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wedding | det |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 wedding | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 going | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 village | det |
| 9 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a wedding | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | gerund | a wedding not said here | the village | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
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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