Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 31
Meanwhile, the Russian merchant, after trading some five years, made a tolerable fortune.
Who acts: Russian merchant · What happens: trade, make · To what, where: tolerable fortune
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian merchant), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 13 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 merchant | amod |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trading | punct |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 trading | mark |
| 8 | trading | trade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 merchant | acl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 years | det |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trading | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 merchant | punct |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fortune | det |
| 15 | tolerable | tolerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fortune | amod |
| 16 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trade | gerund | the Russian merchant not said here | year | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Russian merchant | a tolerable fortune | meanwhile property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |
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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