Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 115
And it fell down before the Lord, and begged for food.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: fall down, beg
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 (wolf), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fell | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 Lord | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lord | det |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 begged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 begged | cc |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fell | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 begged | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | wolf | before the Lord | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before lord=Location | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | wolf not said here | for food | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic |
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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