Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 182
Page 233--omitted 'a' added--"... hiding him behind a number of cushions, ..."
What happens: omit, add, hide · To what, where: Greek, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 omitted | compound |
| 2 | 233 | 233 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | omitted | omit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 added | det |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 omitted | parataxis |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 11 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 12 hiding | punct |
| 12 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 omitted | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hiding | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 number | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 number | det |
| 16 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hiding | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cushions | case |
| 18 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 number | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 omitted | punct |
| 20 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 4 omitted | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 omitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | omit | past | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | hide in a quote | gerund | Greek | a number of cushions | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient behind number=Location |
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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