Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 122
As the sacred wayfarers pursued their journey, there came rolling towards them a barrel full of money.
Who acts: sacred wayfarers, wayfarers · What happens: pursue, come, roll, journey · To what, where: journey, barrel
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 (sacred wayfarers, wayfarers), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 pursued | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wayfarers | det |
| 3 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wayfarers | amod |
| 4 | wayfarers | wayfarer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pursued | nsubj |
| 5 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | advcl |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pursued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pursued | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 came | expl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rolling | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 barrel | det |
| 15 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rolling | obj |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 barrel | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 money | case |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the sacred wayfarers | wayfarers's journey | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | roll | gerund | a barrel | towards wayfarers = wayfarer | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent barrel=Theme towards they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | journey | wayfarers = wayfarer | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/122/