Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 102
Once upon a time, we are told, a king grew weary of good fortune, so he sent messengers in search of misfortune.
Who acts: king · What happens: tell, grow, send, search · To what, where: we, messengers, search, misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 told | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | conj |
| 13 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 fortune | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fortune | amod |
| 16 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weary | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | conj |
| 21 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sent | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 search | case |
| 23 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sent | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 misfortune | case |
| 25 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 search | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | we | time | once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | grow | past | a king | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | king | messengers | search of misfortune | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme in search=Destination | |||
| 4 | search | misfortune | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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