Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 164
At the end of the week the rich man gave him a loaf of bread, and says:
Who acts: rich man · What happens: give, say · To what, where: loaf, giant, end · 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 (rich man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 week | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 week | det |
| 6 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 says | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 loaf | det |
| 13 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bread | case |
| 15 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loaf | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 says | cc |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the rich man | a loaf of bread | giant | at the end of the week | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient loaf=Theme at end=Asset | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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