Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 74
The rich man seemed to feel ashamed, for he stopped and said to the moujik:
Who acts: rich man, man · What happens: seem, feel, stop, say · To what, where: moujik · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rich man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 feel | mark |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stopped | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 stopped | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seemed | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stopped | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 moujik | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moujik | det |
| 16 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the rich man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | the rich man not said here | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | man | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | the moujik | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to moujik=Recipient |
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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