Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 140
In a certain country there once lived a king, and he had three sons, all of them grown up.
Who acts: king · What happens: live, have, grow up · To what, where: king, certain country, three sons
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 country | amod |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 country | advmod |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sons | nummod |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 all | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 sons | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 all | nmod |
| 20 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sons | acl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 grown | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king | a certain country | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | king | three sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow up | participle | three sons not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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