Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 122
Then the dear sun glowed, and the rye grew ripe--like so much gold did it stand in the fields.
Who acts: dear sun, rye, sun · What happens: glow, grow, stand · To what, where: fields
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 (dear sun, rye, sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 glowed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sun | amod |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glowed | nsubj |
| 5 | glowed | glow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grew | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rye | det |
| 9 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glowed | conj |
| 11 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 stand | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gold | amod |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stand | obl |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stand | aux |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stand | nsubj |
| 19 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grew | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fields | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fields | det |
| 22 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stand | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | participle | the dear sun | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the rye | ripe property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · do-support | sun | the fields | like much gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location |
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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