Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 12
PAGE They came to the place where he had left her Frontispiece All manner of evil powers walked abroad 16 "How much do you want for that horse?"
Who acts: PAGE, manner, 16 · What happens: come, leave, walk, want · To what, where: place, Frontispiece, much
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PAGE, manner, 16), 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 | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 left | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Frontispiece | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Frontispiece | frontispiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 manner | det |
| 14 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 powers | case |
| 16 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 powers | amod |
| 17 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 manner | nmod |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 19 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 18 walked | advmod |
| 20 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 want | nsubj |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 want | punct |
| 22 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 want | obj |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 want | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 want | nsubj |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 walked | advcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 horse | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 horse | det |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | obl |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | PAGE | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | PAGE | School's Frontispiece | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frontispiece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | all manner of evil powers | abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present · do-support | 16 | much | for that horse | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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