Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 53
In another story[247] a young man, the son of a wealthy merchant, is so unlucky that nothing will prosper with him.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, prosper · To what, where: story
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 (nothing), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unlucky | obl |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 247 | punct |
| 5 | 247 | 247 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 story | appos |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 247 | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 merchant | det |
| 15 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 merchant | amod |
| 16 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 unlucky | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 unlucky | advmod |
| 20 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 prosper | mark |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 prosper | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 prosper | aux |
| 24 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 unlucky | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 prosper | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 unlucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | another story and a young man | unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prosper | future | nothing | with man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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