Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 119

As if there were no lads in our village, forsooth!

What happens: be · To what, where: village

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	As	as	ADP	_	6 lads	case
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 were	mark
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lads	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 lads	det
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 forsooth	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 village	nmod:poss
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lads	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lads	punct
11	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 forsooth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				our village		as no lads	tree rules

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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