Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 58
Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen, and the King was very fond of hunting and shooting.
Who acts: King · What happens: live, be · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queen | cc |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fond | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fond | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fond | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fond | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 fond | advmod |
| 17 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hunting | case |
| 19 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fond | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shooting | cc |
| 21 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunting | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King and Queen | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | the King | of hunting and shooting; fond property | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/58/