Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 75
Well, it happened one day that Elijah and Nicholas were walking over the land belonging to this Moujik; and as they walked they looked--in the cornfields the green blades were growing up so splendidly that it did one's heart good to look at them.
Who acts: it, Elijah, land, green blades · What happens: happen, walk, belong, look, grow up · To what, where: one day, land, cornfields
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 (it, Elijah, land, green blades), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 happened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 walking | mark |
| 8 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Nicholas | cc |
| 10 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Elijah | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | aux |
| 12 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 day | acl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | obl |
| 16 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 land | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Moujik | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Moujik | det |
| 19 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 belonging | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 walked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walked | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 walked | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 walked | nsubj |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 walked | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 cornfields | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 cornfields | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cornfields | det |
| 30 | cornfields | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 blades | det |
| 32 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 blades | amod |
| 33 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 growing | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 growing | aux |
| 35 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 cornfields | acl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 growing | compound:prt |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 splendidly | advmod |
| 38 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 47 look | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 did | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 did | nsubj |
| 41 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 look | aux |
| 42 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 heart | nmod:poss |
| 43 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 42 one | case |
| 44 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 did | obj |
| 45 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 heart | amod |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 look | mark |
| 47 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 walked | advcl |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 them | case |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 look | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past · progressive | Elijah and Nicholas | one day not said here | the land | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent day=Theme over land=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | belong | gerund | the land not said here | to this Moujik | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | Elijah | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | past | Elijah | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | grow up | past · progressive | the green blades | the cornfields not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cornfield=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look | past · do-support | Elijah not said here | at Elijah; splendidly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
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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