Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 111
"Presently a little demon came sidling up and carried off the bread.
Who acts: little demon · What happens: come, sidle up, carry off · To what, where: 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 (little demon), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 2 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 demon | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 demon | amod |
| 5 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sidling | sidle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 sidling | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sidling | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 bread | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bread | det |
| 13 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | a little demon | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sidle up in a quote | gerund | a little demon not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry off in a quote | participle | a little demon not said here | the bread | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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