Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 90
Well, the Smith lived in good accord with the Demon for some ten years.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: live · To what, where: good accord
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 (Smith), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Smith | det |
| 4 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 accord | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 accord | amod |
| 8 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Demon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Demon | det |
| 11 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accord | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 years | det |
| 14 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 years | nummod |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Smith | good accord with the Demon | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in accord=Location |
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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