Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 46

Now in the land in which Ivan lived there was never any day, but always night.

Who acts: Ivan · What happens: live, be · To what, where: land

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 (Ivan), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 land	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	obl
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 day	advmod
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 night	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 night	cc
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 night	advmod
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Ivan			the land	now; night		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
2	be	past	Ivan not said here			there	day		vn exist-47.1 «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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