Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 11
The poor Smith had to reply that the seigneur was no more.
Who acts: poor Smith, seigneur · What happens: have, reply, not be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Smith, seigneur), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Smith | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Smith | amod |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 reply | mark |
| 6 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 more | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seigneur | det |
| 9 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 more | cop |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 reply | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the poor Smith | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the poor Smith not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the seigneur | more property | tree rules |
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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