Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 25
Before he had been there long, some one rode up to the door of the hut, got off his horse, entered the hut, and remained there all night, muttering incessantly:
Who acts: beggar, one · What happens: be, ride up, get off, enter, remain, mutter · To what, where: door, horse, hut
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 (beggar, one), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 there | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 rode | advcl |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 there | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 rode | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | parataxis |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 got | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 entered | punct |
| 24 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hut | det |
| 26 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 remained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 remained | cc |
| 29 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | conj |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 remained | advmod |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 muttering | punct |
| 34 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 remained | advcl |
| 35 | incessantly | incessantly | ADV | _ | 34 muttering | advmod |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | beggar | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride up | past | some one | the door of the hut | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to door=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | get off | past | beggar's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | enter | past | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | |||||
| 5 | remain | past | some one not said here | there | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | some one not said here | incessantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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