Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 92
They could see that the former beggar had got a new house, a lofty one, such as few merchants had!
Who acts: people, former beggar, few merchants · What happens: see, get, have · To what, where: new house, lofty one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, former beggar, few merchants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beggar | det |
| 6 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beggar | amod |
| 7 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 see | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 merchants | punct |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 21 merchants | case |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 such | fixed |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 merchants | amod |
| 21 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | the former beggar | a new house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | few merchants | a lofty one not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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