Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 32
"Follow me!" replied his son, who mounted his horse and rode away, his father following him on foot.
Who acts: son, father · What happens: follow, reply, mount, ride away · To what, where: son, horse, father, foot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, father), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 2 | Follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Follow | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 mounted | nsubj |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rode | cc |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mounted | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 rode | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | obl |
| 20 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 father | acl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 following | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 following | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | infinitive | son's son = son | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | son's son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | son's son | son's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride away | past | son's son not said here | son's father | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | follow | gerund | son's father not said here | son | foot | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on foot=Trajectory |
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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