Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 211
The widow comes to pay Melania a visit, and is induced to believe, on the evidence of beans (frequently used for the purpose of divination), that her destined husband is close at hand.
Who acts: widow, destined husband, divination · What happens: come, pay, induce, believe, use, destine · To what, where: Melania, evidence, hand, beans
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, destined husband, divination), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 widow | det |
| 2 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pay | mark |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | xcomp |
| 6 | Melania | Melania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 visit | det |
| 8 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 induced | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 induced | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 induced | aux:pass |
| 12 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 comes | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 believe | mark |
| 14 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 induced | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 evidence | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 evidence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evidence | det |
| 18 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 believe | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 beans | case |
| 20 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 evidence | nmod |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 used | punct |
| 22 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 23 used | advmod |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 evidence | acl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 purpose | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 purpose | det |
| 26 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 used | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 divination | case |
| 28 | divination | divination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 purpose | nmod |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 used | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 close | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 close | mark |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nmod:poss |
| 33 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 husband | amod |
| 34 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 close | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 close | cop |
| 36 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evidence | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 close | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the widow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | Melania | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent melania=Recipient visit=Asset | ||||
| 3 | induce | present · passive | the widow not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | use | participle | the evidence of beans not said here | for the purpose of divination; frequently property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | destine | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | is | present | widow's destined husband | hand | close property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | evidence | beans | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | purpose | divination | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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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