Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 49
Unable to find a live one, he had one made of iron and gave it to his children.
Who acts: king · What happens: find, have, make, give · To what, where: live one, one, wolf, children
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 | Unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Unable | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unable | parataxis |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 iron | case |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | a live one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | king | one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | of iron | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | give | past | king not said here | wolf | king's children | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to child=Recipient |
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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