Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 88
There were two old folks with whom lived two orphan grandchildren, charming little girls.
Who acts: two old folks · What happens: be, live, charm · To what, where: two orphan grandchildren, little girls
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 (two old folks), 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 | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 folks | nummod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 folks | amod |
| 5 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 whom | case |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 folks | acl:relcl |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 grandchildren | nummod |
| 10 | orphan | orphan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grandchildren | amod |
| 11 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 charming | punct |
| 13 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lived | advcl |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girls | amod |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 charming | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two old folks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | two old folks | two orphan grandchildren | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme grandchild=Location | ||||
| 3 | charm | gerund | two old folks not said here | little girls | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer |
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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