Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 27
They look: there are no footsteps going away from the lake; all the footsteps lead into the water!
Who acts: instructions, footsteps · What happens: look, be, go away, lead · To what, where: lake, water
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 (instructions, footsteps), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 footsteps | det |
| 7 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 are | nsubj |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 footsteps | acl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 lake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lake | det |
| 12 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 lead | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 footsteps | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 footsteps | det |
| 16 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lead | nsubj |
| 17 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lead | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | instructions = instruction | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | does | present | no footsteps | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | gerund | no footsteps not said here | the lake | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from lake=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | lead | present | all footsteps | the water | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into water=Destination |
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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