Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 29
Presently the horseman arrived, entered the hut, and began to repeat the words which the beggar had overheard.
Who acts: horseman · What happens: arrive, enter, begin, repeat, overhear · To what, where: hut, words, beggar
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 (horseman), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horseman | det |
| 3 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrived | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 repeat | mark |
| 13 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 words | det |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 repeat | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 overheard | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beggar | det |
| 18 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 overheard | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 overheard | aux |
| 20 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 words | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the horseman | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the horseman not said here | the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the horseman not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | repeat | to-infinitive | the horseman not said here | the words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | overhear | past · perfect · passive | the beggar | 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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