Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 69
There once was a rich merchant named Marko--a stingier fellow never lived!
Who acts: stingier fellow · What happens: name, not live · To what, where: rich merchant
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stingier fellow), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 named | expl |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 named | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | aux:pass |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 merchant | amod |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Marko | Marko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 fellow | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fellow | det |
| 11 | stingier | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 fellow | amod |
| 12 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Marko | appos |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 lived | advmod |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | a rich merchant | there | once property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | not live | past | a stingier fellow not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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