Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 23
Well, they both went the same way, and soon reached a certain country.
Who acts: loaves · What happens: go, reach · To what, where: same way, certain country
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loaves), 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 | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 reached | advmod |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | loaves = loaf | the same way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | loaves = loaf not said here | a certain country | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=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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