Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 27
When he finds her, she is living at ease in a large house, but day by day her riches wane and her house contracts.
Who acts: man, Fate · What happens: find, live, contract · To what, where: Fate, ease
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, Fate), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 finds | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finds | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 living | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 living | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 living | aux |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 finds | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 ease | case |
| 10 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wane | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 wane | cc |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wane | compound |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | nmod |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 riches | nmod:poss |
| 21 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wane | compound |
| 22 | wane | wane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 contracts | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 contracts | nmod:poss |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 contracts | compound |
| 26 | contracts | contract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wane | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | man | Fate | day riches wane and Fate's house contracts obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 2 | live | present · progressive | Fate | ease | in a large house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Location | |||
| 3 | contract | Fate | nom contract «communication transitive»: poss=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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