Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 43
In the olden years, long long ago, with the spring-tide fair and the summer's heat there came on the world distress and shame.
Who acts: summer · What happens: come, heat · To what, where: world distress
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 (summer), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 years | det |
| 3 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tide | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tide | det |
| 12 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tide | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spring | punct |
| 14 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tide | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heat | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 summer | det |
| 18 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heat | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 summer | case |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tide | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 heat | advmod |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 distress | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 distress | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 distress | compound |
| 26 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 shame | cc |
| 28 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 distress | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the world distress and shame | with the spring tide and the summer's heat; ago property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on distress=Location | ||||
| 2 | heat | the summer | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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