Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 86
So he hired an artist, and ordered him to paint on the door of the smithy exactly such another demon as he had seen in the church.
Who acts: DEMON · What happens: hire, order, paint, see · To what, where: artist, DEMON, door, church
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hired | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 3 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 artist | det |
| 5 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hired | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 paint | mark |
| 11 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paint | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 smithy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 smithy | det |
| 17 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nmod |
| 18 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 19 such | advmod |
| 19 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 demon | amod |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 demon | det |
| 21 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smithy | conj |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 seen | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 paint | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 church | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 church | det |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | DEMON | a artist | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent artist=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | DEMON not said here | DEMON | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | paint not said to happen | to-infinitive | DEMON not said here | the door of the smithy and another such demon | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on door=Destination | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | DEMON | the church | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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