Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 47
By him drunkenness is regarded, like sleep, as the friend of woe--and a friend whose services can be even more readily commanded.
Who acts: friend · What happens: regard, command, service · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 drunkenness | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drunkenness | compound |
| 3 | drunkenness | drunkenness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regarded | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 regarded | aux:pass |
| 5 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 sleep | case |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regarded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regarded | obl:agent |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woe | case |
| 14 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friend | nmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 commanded | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 commanded | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 commanded | nsubj |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 services | nmod:poss |
| 20 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 friend | obj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 commanded | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 commanded | aux:pass |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 more | advmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 commanded | advmod |
| 25 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 26 commanded | advmod |
| 26 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 regarded | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 regarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | present · passive | the friend of woe | by him drunkenness; like sleep | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | command | can · passive | a friend | readily property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | service | a friend | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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