Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 41
They began to kiss and embrace each other, to pour forth tears of joy.
Who acts: footsteps · What happens: begin, kiss, embrace, pour · To what, where: each, tears
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 (footsteps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:5185): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 kiss | mark |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 embrace | cc |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kiss | conj |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 embrace | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pour | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pour | mark |
| 11 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kiss | conj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 pour | advmod |
| 13 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pour | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tears | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | footsteps = footstep | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kiss | to-infinitive | footsteps = footstep not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | embrace | infinitive | footsteps = footstep not said here | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | pour | to-infinitive | footsteps = footstep not said here | tears of joy | forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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