Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 50
And the patriarch came, walking nimbly needing neither guide nor crutch.
Who acts: patriarch · What happens: come, walk, need · To what, where: guide
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 (patriarch), 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 | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 patriarch | det |
| 3 | patriarch | patriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 walking | punct |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 7 | nimbly | nimbly | ADV | _ | 6 walking | advmod |
| 8 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walking | conj |
| 9 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 guide | det |
| 10 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 needing | obj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 crutch | cc |
| 12 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guide | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the patriarch | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the patriarch not said here | nimbly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | need | gerund | the patriarch not said here | neither guide nor crutch | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot guide=Theme |
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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