Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 5
Twelve years did he live as a married man, but he had only one child, Vasilissa the Fair.
Who acts: VASILISSA · What happens: live, have · To what, where: one child
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 (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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 child | nummod |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Vasilissa | punct |
| 18 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 child | appos |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Fair | det |
| 20 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Vasilissa | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · do-support | VASILISSA | year | as a married man | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | VASILISSA | one child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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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