Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 116
Furious at his loss, the rich man rushed to the picture of St. Nicholas, crying--
Who acts: rich man · What happens: rush, cry · To what, where: loss, picture
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich 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 | Furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 loss | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 loss | nmod:poss |
| 4 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Furious | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loss | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 picture | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 picture | det |
| 12 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Nicholas | case |
| 14 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 picture | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crying | punct |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rushed | advcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Furious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the rich man | man's loss not said here | the picture of Nicholas St. | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent loss=Theme to picture=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | the rich man not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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