Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 24

Inside these huts it was warm; but there was no living in them, on account of the darkness. "

Who acts: window · What happens: be, account · To what, where: huts, darkness

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 (window), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 huts	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 huts	det
3	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warm	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warm	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 was	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 was	cc
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 them	cop
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 living	det
12	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 warm	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 account	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 account	case
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warm	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 darkness	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 darkness	det
20	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 account	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	window		this huts	warm property	tree rules
2	is	past	window not said here			in huts = hut	tree rules
3	account			the darkness			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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