Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 116
Meanwhile--goodness knows how--the Moujik's ground began to get all right.
Who acts: goodness, ground · What happens: know, begin, get
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodness, ground), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 knows | advmod |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 knows | advmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Moujik | det |
| 8 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ground | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Moujik | case |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knows | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 right | advmod |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | goodness | meanwhile property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Moujik's ground | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the Moujik's ground not said here | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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