Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 43
In the preceding story, No. 27, the king makes no promise.
Who acts: king · What happens: precede, make · To what, where: promise, preceding story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 No. | punct |
| 6 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 4 story | appos |
| 7 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 No. | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 promise | det |
| 13 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | the king | no promise | the preceding story | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
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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