Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 83
It ended in his buying a wood, building a large homestead, and becoming twice as rich as his brother.
Who acts: money, peasant · What happens: end, buy, build, become · To what, where: wood, large homestead
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 (money, peasant), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ended | nsubj |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 buying | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 buying | nsubj |
| 5 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ended | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buying | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 building | punct |
| 9 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 buying | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 homestead | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 homestead | amod |
| 12 | homestead | homestead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 building | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 becoming | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 becoming | cc |
| 15 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 ended | advcl |
| 16 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 rich | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 rich | advmod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 becoming | xcomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rich | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | money | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | peasant | a wood | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | gerund | peasant not said here | a large homestead | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset homestead=Product | ||||
| 4 | become | gerund | money not said here | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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