Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 40
And when she heard the horseman enter she sprang forth, exclaiming:
Who acts: wife, horseman · What happens: hear, enter, sprang, exclaim · To what, where: horseman, wife
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 (wife, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heard | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horseman | det |
| 6 | horseman | horseman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 enter | obj |
| 9 | sprang | sprang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enter | xcomp |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 sprang | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaiming | punct |
| 12 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sprang | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | wife | the horseman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | infinitive | the horseman not said here | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sprang | infinitive | the horseman not said here | forth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | the horseman not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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