Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 168
Well, the people heard that there would be a wedding at the palace on such-and-such a day.
Who acts: people, wedding · What happens: hear, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, wedding), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 heard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 be | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 be | expl |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wedding | det |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 be | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wedding | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 day | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 day | cc |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 and | punct |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 day | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 palace | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the people | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | would | a wedding at the palace on such such day | there | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/168/