Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 3
Long did it dwell beside the hearths of the common people, utterly ignored by their superiors in social rank.
Who acts: place · What happens: dwell, ignore · To what, where: hearths
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwell | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dwell | nsubj |
| 4 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 hearths | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hearths | det |
| 7 | hearths | hearth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dwell | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hearths | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ignored | punct |
| 13 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 14 ignored | advmod |
| 14 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dwell | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 superiors | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 superiors | nmod:poss |
| 17 | superiors | superior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ignored | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rank | case |
| 19 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rank | amod |
| 20 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 superiors | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past · do-support | place | the hearths of the common people | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside hearth=Location | |||
| 2 | ignore | participle | by people's superiors in social rank; utterly property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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