Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 45
The old man felt sorry for his eldest daughter, whom he loved because she was industrious and obedient, never was obstinate, always did as she was bid, and never uttered a word of contradiction.
Who acts: old man, man, girl · What happens: feel, love, be, not be, do, bid · To what, where: eldest daughter, girl, word, contradiction
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: who acts (old man, man, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 daughter | amod |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loved | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 loved | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 industrious | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 industrious | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 industrious | cop |
| 17 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loved | ccomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 obedient | cc |
| 19 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 industrious | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 obstinate | punct |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 obstinate | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obstinate | cop |
| 23 | obstinate | obstinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 industrious | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 did | advmod |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 obstinate | parataxis |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 bid | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bid | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 bid | aux:pass |
| 30 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 did | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 uttered | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 uttered | cc |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 uttered | advmod |
| 34 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 word | det |
| 36 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 uttered | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 contradiction | case |
| 38 | contradiction | contradiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 word | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the old man | for man's eldest daughter; sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | past | man | man's eldest daughter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | industrious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | not is | past | girl not said here | obstinate property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | past | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | bid | past · passive | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not utter speech: other | past | the old man not said here | a word of contradiction | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 9 | word | contradiction | nom word «communication 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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