Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 93
But he was not disposed to show attention to the Demon as the old man had done.
Who acts: old man · What happens: not dispose, show, do · To what, where: son, attention · 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 (old man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 disposed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 disposed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disposed | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 disposed | advmod |
| 5 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 disposed | advcl |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Demon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Demon | det |
| 11 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 show | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 disposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dispose | past · passive | son | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | attention | to the Demon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent attention=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the old man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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