Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 45
To him strong liquor is a friend, a comforter, a solace amid the ills of life.
What happens: be · To what, where: friend
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: 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 liquor | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liquor | nsubj |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 liquor | amod |
| 4 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 friend | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 comforter | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 comforter | det |
| 10 | comforter | comforter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 amid | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 amid | det |
| 13 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amid | compound |
| 14 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 friend | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ills | det |
| 16 | ills | ill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 amid | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ills | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a friend and a comforter and a solace amid and the ills of life | to strong liquor | tree rules |
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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