Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 105
Long, long ago, Christ and his twelve Apostles were wandering about the world, and they entered into a village one evening, and asked a rich moujik to allow them to spend the night in his house.
Who acts: twelve Apostles, Apostles, rich moujik · What happens: wonder, enter, ask, allow, spend · To what, where: Christ, village, rich moujik, Apostles, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve Apostles, Apostles, rich 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Christ | punct |
| 6 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Long | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wandering | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Apostles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Apostles | nummod |
| 10 | Apostles | apostle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wandering | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wandering | aux |
| 12 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Christ | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandering | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entered | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Christ | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 village | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 village | det |
| 22 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 evening | nummod |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 asked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 asked | cc |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 entered | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 moujik | det |
| 29 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 moujik | amod |
| 30 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asked | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 allow | mark |
| 32 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 moujik | acl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 allow | iobj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 spend | mark |
| 35 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 allow | xcomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 night | det |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spend | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 house | nmod:poss |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spend | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Christ's twelve Apostles | about the world | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Apostles = apostle | Christ not said here | a village | evening | tree rules | ||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Apostles = apostle not said here | a rich moujik | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | allow | to-infinitive | Apostles = apostle not said here | a rich moujik not said here | Apostles = apostle | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | spend not said to happen | to-infinitive | a rich moujik not said here | Christ's house | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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