Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 29
Well, the good youth brought his bride to her village, and stopped opposite the priest's house.
Who acts: good youth · What happens: bring, stop · To what, where: bride, village
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 (good youth), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 brought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 youth | amod |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bride | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 village | nmod:poss |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stopped | cc |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 priest | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the good youth | youth's bride | bride's village | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to village=Destination | |||
| 2 | stop | past | the good youth not said here | opposite the priest's house | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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