Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 25
Well, they arrived, elbowed their way among the people in front of the King's palace, and gave out that they were doctors.
Who acts: loaves · What happens: arrive, elbow, give out, be · To what, where: way, doctors
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 | _ | 4 arrived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 elbowed | punct |
| 6 | elbowed | elbow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elbowed | obj |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 elbowed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 front | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 gave | compound:prt |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 doctors | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 doctors | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 doctors | cop |
| 26 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | loaves = loaf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | elbow | past | loaves = loaf not said here | loaves's way | among the people in front of the King's palace | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Patient among people=Location | |||
| 3 | give out | past | loaves = loaf not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | loaves = loaf | doctors | 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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