Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 122
Well, the children grew up, but they never had even the slightest bit of good luck.
Who acts: children, folks · What happens: grow up, not have · To what, where: slightest bit
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, folks), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 grew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 grew | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 had | advmod |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 bit | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bit | det |
| 14 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 bit | amod |
| 15 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 luck | case |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 luck | amod |
| 18 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the children | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not have | past | folks = folk | the slightest bit of good luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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