Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 88
The old man sent his daughter-in-law to purchase meat and drink and different kind of relishes--everything there ought to be at memorial feasts--and he himself took a ducat in his hand and hobbled back again to the pope's.
Who acts: old man, everything, man · What happens: send, purchase, be, take, hobble back · To what, where: daughter, meat, memorial feasts, ducat, hand, pope
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, everything, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 law | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 purchase | mark |
| 12 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 purchase | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kind | cc |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kind | amod |
| 18 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 relishes | case |
| 20 | relishes | relish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kind | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 feasts | punct |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 feasts | nsubj |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 everything | advmod |
| 24 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 feasts | aux |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 feasts | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 feasts | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 feasts | case |
| 28 | memorial | memorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feasts | amod |
| 29 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 purchase | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 took | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 took | cc |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 took | nsubj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 32 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 ducat | det |
| 36 | ducat | ducat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 hand | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 hand | nmod:poss |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 took | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 hobbled | cc |
| 41 | hobbled | hobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 took | conj |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 hobbled | advmod |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 hobbled | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 pope | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 pope | det |
| 46 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hobbled | obl |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 pope | case |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the old man | man's daughter and law | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | purchase | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | meat and drink and different kind of relishes | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | ought | everything | memorial feasts | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | man | a ducat | man's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ducat=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 5 | hobble back | past | man not said here | the pope | again | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to pope=Destination |
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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