Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 131
Well, this is what they resolved: to set out wandering about the wide world in search of good luck and a kindly welcome, and to look for and find out the best places in which they could turn into great rivers--for that was a possible thing then.
Who acts: this, life, that · What happens: be, resolve, set out, wonder, look, find out · To what, where: search, best places, good luck
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 (this, life, that), 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 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 resolved | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 resolved | nsubj |
| 7 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 set | mark |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 resolved | ccomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 set | compound:prt |
| 12 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | advcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 world | amod |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandering | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 search | case |
| 18 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wandering | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 luck | case |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 luck | amod |
| 21 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 search | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 welcome | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 welcome | det |
| 24 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 25 welcome | advmod |
| 25 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 luck | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 look | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 look | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 look | mark |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 look | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 find | compound:prt |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 places | det |
| 35 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 places | amod |
| 36 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 find | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 turn | obl |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 turn | nsubj |
| 40 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 turn | aux |
| 41 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 places | acl:relcl |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 rivers | case |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 rivers | amod |
| 44 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 turn | obl |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 thing | punct |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 thing | case |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 thing | nsubj |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 thing | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 thing | det |
| 50 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 thing | amod |
| 51 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turn | parataxis |
| 52 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 turn | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | resolve | past | life | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set out | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | life not said here | search of good luck and a welcome | about the wide world | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about world=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | find out | infinitive | life not said here | the best places | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 7 | turn | could | life | the best places | then | into great rivers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in which=Source into river=Trajectory | ||
| 8 | is | past | that | for a possible thing | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | search | good luck and a welcome | nom search «act 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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