Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 225
All their neighbors envied them; the sight of them gave pleasure to honest folks.
Who acts: neighbors, sight · What happens: envy, give, sight · To what, where: wives, pleasure, honest folks
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 (neighbors, sight), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 neighbors | det:predet |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 3 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 envied | nsubj |
| 4 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 envied | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nmod |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 envied | conj |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 folks | case |
| 14 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 folks | amod |
| 15 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 envied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy | past | wives's neighbors | wives = wife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the sight of wives | pleasure | honest folks | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme to folk=Recipient | |||
| 3 | sight | wives = wife | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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