Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 124
At that very time Elijah and Nicholas came walking by again.
Who acts: Elijah · What happens: come, walk
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 (Elijah), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Nicholas | cc |
| 7 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Elijah | conj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 again | case |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 walking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Elijah and Nicholas | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | Elijah and Nicholas not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by again=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/57/124/