Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 37
The villagers, excited by the news, collected in crowds, and drank the beer and rejoiced.
What happens: collect, drink, rejoice · To what, where: villagers, crowds, beer
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 villagers | det |
| 2 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 excited | punct |
| 4 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 villagers | amod |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 news | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 news | det |
| 7 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 excited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 collected | punct |
| 9 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 crowds | case |
| 11 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 collected | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drank | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drank | cc |
| 14 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 collected | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beer | det |
| 16 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drank | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rejoiced | cc |
| 18 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 drank | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | participle · passive | the villagers | crowds | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | past | the beer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Patient | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | past | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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