Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 16
Their stories were intended simply to sell.
What happens: intend, sell · To what, where: stories
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stories | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intended | aux:pass |
| 4 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 7 sell | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sell | mark |
| 7 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intended | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | stories's stories | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | simply property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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