Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 35
The old man lingered long beside the ice-hole, then he returned home and said to his wife:
Who acts: old man · What happens: linger, return, say · To what, where: old man, ice hole, wife · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 lingered | advmod |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 8 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hole | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ice | punct |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lingered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 returned | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linger | participle | the old man not said here | the ice hole | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside hole=Location | |||
| 2 | return | past | the old man | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man not said here | man's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
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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