Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 79
After a time the Lord took pity upon them, and there appeared at a little distance from the city a deep lake.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: take, appear · To what, where: pity, deep lake
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 (Lord), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lord | det |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 appeared | cc |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 appeared | advmod |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 distance | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 distance | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 distance | amod |
| 17 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 distance | nmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lake | amod |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Lord | pity | time | upon people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Theme | ||
| 2 | appear | past | the Lord not said here | a deep lake | there | at a little distance from the city | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lake=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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