Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 39
So on the third night his young wife went to the hut and hid behind the stove.
Who acts: young wife · What happens: go, hide · To what, where: hut, 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 (young wife), 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 | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 night | amod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wife | amod |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hid | cc |
| 14 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 stove | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stove | det |
| 17 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | husband's young wife | the hut | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hide | past | husband's young wife not said here | the stove | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent 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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