Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 178
A number of the name-day guests were already seated at table.
What happens: seat · To what, where: number, table
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 guests | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guests | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guests | compound |
| 8 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seated | aux:pass |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 seated | advmod |
| 11 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | a number of the day guests | table | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
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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