Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 133
When a drought was impending, he scattered the peasant's seed-corn over a swamp; when a wet season was at hand, he sowed the slopes of the hills.
Who acts: drought, wet season · What happens: impend, scatter, be, sow · To what, where: seed corn, swamp, hand, slopes
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 (drought, wet season), 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 impending | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drought | det |
| 3 | drought | drought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impending | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impending | aux |
| 5 | impending | impend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 scattered | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 impending | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 scattered | nsubj |
| 8 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peasant | det |
| 10 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 peasant | case |
| 12 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corn | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 seed | punct |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scattered | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 swamp | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 swamp | det |
| 17 | swamp | swamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 corn | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sowed | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 hand | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 season | det |
| 21 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 season | amod |
| 22 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hand | cop |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sowed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hand | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sowed | nsubj |
| 28 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 scattered | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 slopes | det |
| 30 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sowed | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 hills | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hills | det |
| 33 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 slopes | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impend | past · progressive | a drought | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | scatter | past | drought | the peasant's seed corn | a swamp | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corn=Theme over swamp=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | a wet season | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sow | past | drought | the slopes of the hills | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slope=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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