Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 15
It wasn't a question with him of girls (with dowries); more than all others, a certain widow took his fancy.
Who acts: merchant, certain widow, VASILISSA · What happens: not be, be, take, fancy · To what, where: question, fancy
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, certain widow, VASILISSA), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 question | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 question | cop |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 question | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 question | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 girls | case |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 question | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 dowries | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 dowries | case |
| 12 | dowries | dowry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 girls | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 dowries | punct |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 question | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 more | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 widow | det |
| 21 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 widow | amod |
| 22 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | nsubj |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 question | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | merchant | a question | with VASILISSA; of girls | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | merchant not said here | than all others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | a certain widow | VASILISSA's fancy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fancy | VASILISSA | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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