Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 122
As he drove past the inn a young merchant saw him, and cried--
Who acts: other, young merchant · What happens: drive, see, cry · To what, where: inn, other
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 (other, young merchant), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drove | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merchant | amod |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inn | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | other | the inn | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past inn=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a young merchant | other | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | 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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