Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 35
A certain peasant, known as Ivan the Unlucky, in despair at his constant want of success, goes to the king for advice.
Who acts: certain peasant, peasant · What happens: know, go, want · To what, where: certain peasant, success
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 (certain peasant, peasant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2852): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 peasant | amod |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 peasant | acl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 Ivan | case |
| 7 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 known | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Unlucky | det |
| 9 | Unlucky | Unlucky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ivan | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 despair | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 despair | case |
| 12 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peasant | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 want | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 want | nmod:poss |
| 15 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 want | amod |
| 16 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 despair | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 success | case |
| 18 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 want | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 despair | punct |
| 20 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 advice | case |
| 25 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 goes | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | a certain peasant in despair at peasant's constant want of success not said here | as Ivan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as ivan=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go | present | a certain peasant in despair at peasant's constant want of success | to the king; for advice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | want | peasant | success | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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