Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 96
Thus three years went by, he all the while favoring the Evil One every morning either with a spitting or with a hammering.
Who acts: three years, while · What happens: go, favor · To what, where: Evil
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 (three years, while), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 he | case |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 by | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 while | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 favoring | nsubj |
| 11 | favoring | favor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Evil | det |
| 13 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 favoring | obj |
| 14 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Evil | flat |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 favoring | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 favoring | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 spitting | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spitting | det |
| 20 | spitting | spitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 favoring | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 hammering | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 hammering | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hammering | det |
| 24 | hammering | hammering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spitting | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | three years | by man; thus property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location | ||||
| 2 | favor | gerund | all while | the Evil | morning | with a spitting or a hammering; either property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
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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