Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 105

There once lived an old couple who had one son called Ivashko;[207] no one can tell how fond they were of him!

Who acts: old couple, 207, tales · What happens: live, have, call, tell, be · To what, where: old couple, one son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old couple, 207, tales), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 couple	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 couple	amod
6	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 couple	acl:relcl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 son	nummod
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 son	acl
12	Ivashko	Ivashko	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
14	[	[	PUNCT	_	15 207	punct
15	207	207	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 tell	nsubj
16	]	]	PUNCT	_	15 207	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tell	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 tell	aux
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lived	conj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 fond	advmod
22	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tell	ccomp
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 him	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 him	cop
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fond	ccomp
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old couple	there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location
2	have	past	a old couple	one son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	call	participle		one son not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	can	207				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	tales = tale			of Ivashko	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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