Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 114
"The little demon[479] ran off to the devil,[480] and cried:
Who acts: little demon · What happens: run off, cry · To what, where: 480
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 | _ | 8 ran | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 demon | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 demon | amod |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 479 | punct |
| 6 | 479 | 479 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 demon | appos |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 479 | punct |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 ran | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 devil | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 devil | det |
| 12 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 480 | punct |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 480 | punct |
| 15 | 480 | 480 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 ran | obl |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 480 | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cried | cc |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off in a quote | past | the little demon | 480 | to the devil result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to devil=Result | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the little demon not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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