Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 104
When his horse was harnessed, and everything ready, he ran indoors to get some bread; but when he got there, and looked in the cupboard, there was nothing there but a single crust.
Who acts: horse, nothing · What happens: harness, run, get, look, be · To what, where: horse, bread
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse, nothing), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 harnessed | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harnessed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 harnessed | aux:pass |
| 5 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ran | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ready | cc |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 harnessed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 harnessed | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | indoors | indoors | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ran | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 bread | det |
| 17 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 got | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 got | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 got | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cupboard | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cupboard | det |
| 29 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looked | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 looked | conj |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 32 was | nsubj |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 nothing | advmod |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 crust | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 crust | det |
| 37 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 crust | amod |
| 38 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nothing | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harness | past · passive | moujik's horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | run | past | horse | indoors property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | horse not said here | some bread | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | past | horse | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | look | past | in the cupboard | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cupboard=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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