Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 90
Thus in one of the stories a peasant is driving along a heavy road one autumn day, when his cart sticks fast in the mire.
Who acts: peasant, cart · What happens: drive, stick · To what, where: stories, heavy road, mire
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 (peasant, cart), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 driving | aux |
| 10 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 stories | acl:relcl |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 road | amod |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 day | nummod |
| 16 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | compound |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sticks | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 sticks | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sticks | nsubj |
| 22 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | parataxis |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 sticks | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 mire | det |
| 26 | mire | mire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sticks | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present · progressive | a peasant | the stories not said here | a heavy road | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent story=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | stick | present | peasant's cart | the mire | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mire=Destination |
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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