Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 129
The old woman went to another village, visited every house from one end to the other, but there wasn't an atom of good to be got out of it.
Who acts: old woman, atom · What happens: go, visit, be, get out · To what, where: village, house, one end
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, atom), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 visited | punct |
| 9 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visited | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 end | nummod |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visited | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 visited | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 atom | advmod |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 atom | det |
| 24 | atom | atom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 good | case |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 atom | amod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 got | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 got | aux:pass |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 good | advcl |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 got | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old woman | another village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | visit | past | every house | from one end | to the other | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | be | past | a atom | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get out | to-infinitive · passive | a atom not said here | village | 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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