Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 169
"That was my dark Night; they are all trusty servants of mine."
Who acts: That, gates · What happens: be · To what, where: dark Night, trusty servants
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 (That, gates), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Night | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Night | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Night | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Night | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Night | amod |
| 6 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 servants | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 servants | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 servants | cop |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 servants | advmod |
| 11 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 servants | amod |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Night | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mine | case |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 servants | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Night | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | my dark Night and trusty servants | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | gates = gate | trusty servants | of 191; all 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.
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