Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 128
The sun rose higher, and the Apostles began to thirst.
Who acts: sun, Apostles · What happens: rise, begin, thirst
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 (sun, Apostles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 rose | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Apostles | det |
| 8 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 thirst | mark |
| 11 | thirst | thirst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the sun | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Apostles | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | thirst | to-infinitive | the Apostles not said here | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |
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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