Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 19
Well, next day the Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas were walking along together in the guise of wayfarers, and they met the Moujik, who was carrying two wax tapers--one, a big rouble one, and the other, a tiny copeck one.
Who acts: Prophet Elijah, Elijah, Moujik, one · What happens: walk, meet, carry, rouble · To what, where: guise, Moujik, two wax tapers
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 (Prophet Elijah, Elijah, Moujik, one), 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 | _ | 12 walking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Elijah | det |
| 6 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Elijah | compound |
| 7 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Nicholas | cc |
| 9 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Elijah | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | aux |
| 12 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 12 walking | advmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 walking | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 guise | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 guise | det |
| 17 | guise | guise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walking | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wayfarers | case |
| 19 | wayfarers | wayfarer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 guise | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 met | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 met | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 met | nsubj |
| 23 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 walking | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Moujik | det |
| 25 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 met | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carrying | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 carrying | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 carrying | aux |
| 29 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 Moujik | advcl |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 tapers | nummod |
| 31 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tapers | compound |
| 32 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 carrying | obj |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 rouble | punct |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 rouble | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rouble | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 rouble | det |
| 37 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 rouble | amod |
| 38 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tapers | nmod |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 rouble | flat |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 other | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 other | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 other | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Moujik | parataxis |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 one | punct |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 one | det |
| 46 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 one | amod |
| 47 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 one | compound |
| 48 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Moujik | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the Prophet Elijah and Nicholas St. | the guise of wayfarers | day | along, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | meet | past | Elijah | the Moujik | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moujik=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · progressive | the Moujik | two wax tapers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rouble | one | tree rules |
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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