Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 94
The pope took the money, and didn't know how best to receive the old man, where to seat him, with what words to smooth him down. "
Who acts: pope · What happens: take, not know, receive, smooth down · To what, where: money, old man, man
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 (pope), 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 pope | det |
| 2 | pope | pope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 know | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 best | advmod |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 know | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 receive | mark |
| 14 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 know | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 receive | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 where | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 man | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 seat | mark |
| 21 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 where | nsubj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seat | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 what | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seat | acl:relcl |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 what | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 smooth | mark |
| 28 | smooth | smooth | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 words | acl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 smooth | obj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 smooth | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the pope | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the pope not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | the pope not said here | the old man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smooth down | to-infinitive | the pope not said here | man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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