Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 83
When the "little devil" returns to the lake from which he came, "the grandfather" of the demons asks him--
Who acts: little devil, story, grandfather · What happens: return, come, ask · To what, where: lake, story
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 (little devil, story, grandfather), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 returns | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 devil | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 devil | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 devil | amod |
| 5 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returns | nsubj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 devil | punct |
| 7 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 asks | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returns | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lake | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returns | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 grandfather | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grandfather | det |
| 18 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asks | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 grandfather | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 demons | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 demons | det |
| 22 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grandfather | nmod |
| 23 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asks | obj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | the little devil | to the lake result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lake=Result | ||||
| 2 | come | past | story | the lake | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | the grandfather of the demons | story | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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