Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 28
But on the eve of the festival, when he was sitting at home in sadness, he suddenly rose and drew near to the sacred painting which hung in the corner, and sighed heavily, and said,
Who acts: story, sacred painting · What happens: sit, rise, draw, hang, sigh, say · To what, where: home, eve, sacred painting, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, sacred painting), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 rose | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 eve | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eve | det |
| 4 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 festival | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 festival | det |
| 7 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eve | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 sitting | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sitting | aux |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 festival | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sadness | case |
| 16 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eve | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 rose | advmod |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 said | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drew | cc |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rose | conj |
| 23 | near | near | ADV | _ | 22 drew | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 painting | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 painting | det |
| 26 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 painting | amod |
| 27 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drew | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 hung | nsubj |
| 29 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 painting | acl:relcl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 corner | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 corner | det |
| 32 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hung | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sighed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sighed | cc |
| 35 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rose | conj |
| 36 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 35 sighed | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 said | cc |
| 39 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | story | home | in sadness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | |||
| 2 | rise | past | story | the eve of the festival | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on eve=Location | |||
| 3 | draw | past | story not said here | the sacred painting | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to painting=Destination | |||
| 4 | hang | past | the sacred painting | the corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 5 | sigh | past | story not said here | heavily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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