Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 65
But when he is about to mount his charger the sight of the solitary stirrup recalls it to his mind.
Who acts: George, sight · What happens: be, mount, recall, sight, mind · To what, where: charger, mind, solitary stirrup
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 (George, sight), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 about | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 about | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 about | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 about | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 mount | mark |
| 7 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 about | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 charger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mount | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sight | det |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recalls | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stirrup | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stirrup | det |
| 14 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stirrup | amod |
| 15 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 16 | recalls | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 charger | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 recalls | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 mind | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recalls | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | George | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | to-infinitive | George not said here | George's charger | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | recall | present | the sight of the solitary stirrup | charger | George's mind | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mind=Destination | |||
| 4 | sight | the solitary stirrup | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mind | George | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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