Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 136
Woe was drowned, and the merchant began to live again as he had been wont to do of old.
Who acts: merchant, luck · What happens: drown, begin, live, be, do · To what, where: Woe
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, luck), 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 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drowned | aux:pass |
| 3 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drowned | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 live | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 wont | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wont | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wont | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 wont | cop |
| 16 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 live | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wont | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 old | case |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 do | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past · passive | Woe | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the merchant | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | again | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | luck | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | luck not said here | of old | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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