Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 53
About this time Anepou sets out to pay his long-lost brother a visit.
Who acts: Anepou · What happens: set out, pay, lose · To what, where: long lost brother
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anepou), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sets | obl |
| 4 | Anepou | Anepou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sets | nsubj |
| 5 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sets | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sets | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 visit | det |
| 15 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | Anepou | time | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | Anepou not said here | Anepou's long lost brother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient visit=Asset | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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