Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 31
Soon afterwards an old man entered the cottage, and obtained leave to spend the night there.
Who acts: old man · What happens: enter, obtain, spend · To what, where: cottage, leave
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 (old man), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 entered | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 entered | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cottage | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obtained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 obtained | cc |
| 11 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 12 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 obtained | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 spend | mark |
| 14 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 obtained | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spend | obj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 spend | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a old man | the cottage | afterwards, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination | |||
| 2 | obtain | past | a old man not said here | leave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spend | to-infinitive | a old man not said here | there | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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