Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 28
So towards evening the old man went to the hut in the forest, and hid himself behind the stove.
Who acts: old man · What happens: go, hide · To what, where: hut, man, stove
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 man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hut | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hut | det |
| 10 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hut | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hid | cc |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hid | obj |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 stove | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stove | det |
| 20 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old man | the hut in the forest | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hide | past | the old man not said here | man | the stove | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind stove=Location |
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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