Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 22
The parent's grief appears to Lutonya so uncalled for that he leaves home, declaring that he will not return until he has found people more foolish than they.
Who acts: grief · What happens: appear, leave, declare, not return, find · To what, where: Lutonya, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grief), 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 | 2 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grief | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 parent | case |
| 4 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appears | nsubj |
| 5 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Lutonya | case |
| 7 | Lutonya | Lutonya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appears | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 uncalled | advmod |
| 9 | uncalled | uncalled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 appears | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 that | case |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 uncalled | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaves | nsubj |
| 13 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 appears | parataxis |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 leaves | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 declaring | punct |
| 16 | declaring | declare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 leaves | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 return | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 return | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 return | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 return | advmod |
| 21 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 declaring | ccomp |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 25 found | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 return | ccomp |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 foolish | advmod |
| 28 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 found | xcomp |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 they | case |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 foolish | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the parent's grief | Lutonya | uncalled property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | present | grief | home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | gerund | grief not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not return | future | grief | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | present · perfect | grief | people | foolish property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
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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