Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 38
If he were to be married, the Lord might allot him another sort of Fortune."
Who acts: Lord · What happens: marry, allot, sort · To what, where: king, sort, Fortune
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 (Lord), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 allot | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lord | det |
| 9 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 allot | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 allot | aux |
| 11 | allot | allot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 allot | obj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 sort | det |
| 14 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 allot | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Fortune | case |
| 16 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sort | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 allot | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 allot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | king | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | allot | might | the Lord | another sort of Fortune | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sort=Theme | |||
| 3 | sort | Fortune | nom sort «cognition transitive»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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