Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 24
One day he sees a grey-haired old woman asleep under an oak in a great forest, who proves to be his Luck.
Who acts: man, great forest · What happens: see, prove, be · To what, where: grey haired old woman, Luck
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, great forest), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grey | punct |
| 8 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obj |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 oak | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oak | det |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asleep | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 oak | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 proves | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 proves | nsubj |
| 21 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 forest | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 Luck | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Luck | cop |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Luck | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Luck | Luck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 proves | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | man | a grey haired old woman | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | prove | present | a great forest | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a great forest not said here | man's Luck | tree rules |
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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