Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 36
The king lays the matter before "his nobles and generals," but they can make nothing of it.
Who acts: king, generals · What happens: lay, make · To what, where: matter, nobles, nothing
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 (king, generals), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | nsubj |
| 3 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lays | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 nobles | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nobles | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 9 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lays | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 generals | cc |
| 11 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nobles | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nobles | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 nobles | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lays | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 nothing | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the king | the matter | king's nobles and generals | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme before noble=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | can | generals = general | nothing | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product |
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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