Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 111
There's no describing how satisfied his master was with him, how fond he got of him.
Who acts: satisfied master, DEMON · What happens: be, describe, master, get
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (satisfied master, DEMON), 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 | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 master | det |
| 4 | describing | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 master | nsubj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | amod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 him | cop |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fond | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 fond | advmod |
| 14 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 master | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fond | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 got | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | DEMON's satisfied master | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | master | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | is | past | with DEMON | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get | past | DEMON | of artist | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of he=Destination |
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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