Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 149
In another story, from the Viatka Government, the poor man is invited to a house-warming at his rich brother's, but he has no present to take with him.
Who acts: man · What happens: invite, warm, have, take · To what, where: poor man, story, present
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 invited | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Government | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Government | det |
| 7 | Viatka | Viatka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Government | compound |
| 8 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 invited | aux:pass |
| 14 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 warming | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 warming | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warming | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 19 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 invited | advcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brother | amod |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 warming | obl |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 has | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 invited | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 present | det |
| 30 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 present | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 take | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | present · passive | the poor man | another story from the Viatka Government | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | warm | gerund | at man's rich brother | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | have | present | man | no present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | man not said here | no present not said here | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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