Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 133
He remained a third year; worked and worked, till the time came for payment.
Who acts: value, time · What happens: remain, work, come
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (value, time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 worked | punct |
| 7 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 worked | cc |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 worked | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worked | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 payment | case |
| 16 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | value | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | past | value not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work | past | value not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | the time | for payment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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