Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 146
And afterwards he began to lead a new life--impossible to live more prosperously."
Who acts: man · What happens: begin, lead, live · To what, where: new life
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 began | cc |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 began | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 impossible | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lead | mark |
| 6 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 life | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lead | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 impossible | punct |
| 11 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 impossible | csubj |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 prosperously | advmod |
| 15 | prosperously | prosperously | ADV | _ | 13 live | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 impossible | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | man | afterwards property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | man not said here | a new life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | prosperously property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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