Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 151

In a certain village there lived two peasants, two brothers: one of them poor, the other rich.

What happens: live · To what, where: two peasants, certain village

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: 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 village	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 village	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 village	amod
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 peasants	nummod
8	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 brothers	punct
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 brothers	nummod
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 peasants	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 poor	punct
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 poor	nummod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nmod
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rich	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rich	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rich	amod
20	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 poor	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		two peasants and two brothers		a certain village; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location

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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