Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 44

Two of these had their wits about them, but the third was a simpleton, Ivan by name, surnamed Popyalof.

Who acts: Two, third · What happens: have, be, surname · To what, where: wits, simpleton, Popyalof

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two, third), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 these	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	1 Two	nmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wits	nmod:poss
6	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wits	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 simpleton	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 simpleton	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 third	det
12	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 simpleton	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 simpleton	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 simpleton	det
15	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Ivan	punct
17	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 simpleton	appos
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 name	case
19	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Ivan	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 surnamed	punct
21	surnamed	surname	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
22	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 surnamed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Two of these	moon's wits	about moon	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient
2	is a	past	the third	a simpleton		tree rules
3	surname	past	Two of these not said here	Popyalof		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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