Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 4
The old man sold him the dog, and went next day to the top of the mountain, where he found a great city inhabited by devils.
Who acts: old man, man · What happens: sell, go, find, inhabit · To what, where: dog, top, great city
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, 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 | 4 sold | nsubj |
| 4 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sold | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | parataxis |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 top | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 top | det |
| 15 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 top | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 found | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 city | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 city | amod |
| 25 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 26 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 city | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 devils | case |
| 28 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inhabited | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | the old man | dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the top of the mountain | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | man | a great city | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Topic | ||||
| 4 | inhabit | participle | a great city not said here | by devils | 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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