Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 27
But the seigneur and his lady entered upon a prosperous course of life, and if they haven't died, they're living still.
Who acts: seigneur · What happens: enter, not die, live
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 entered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seigneur | det |
| 3 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lady | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lady | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seigneur | conj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 course | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 course | det |
| 10 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 course | amod |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 course | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 died | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 died | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 died | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 died | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 died | advmod |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 entered | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 living | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 living | nsubj |
| 23 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 living | aux |
| 24 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 entered | advcl |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 living | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the seigneur and journeyman's lady | upon a prosperous course of life | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not die a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | seigneur | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | live | present · progressive | seigneur | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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