Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 4
They came to where the wedding was; there they were given drink, and treated with the utmost hospitality.
Who acts: They, wedding · What happens: come, be, give, treat · To what, where: they
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 (They, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 where | case |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 came | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wedding | det |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 where | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 where | cop |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 given | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 given | expl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 given | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | advcl |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 treated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 treated | cc |
| 16 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hospitality | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hospitality | det |
| 19 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hospitality | amod |
| 20 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | They | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the wedding | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | they | there | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient drink=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treat | participle | They not said here | with the utmost hospitality | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with hospitality=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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