Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 55
Poor Marfa was delighted to hear of such a piece of good luck as being invited on a visit, and she slept comfortably all night.
Who acts: Poor Marfa, Marfa · What happens: be, hear, invite, sleep · To what, where: good luck, visit
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 (Poor Marfa, Marfa), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Marfa | amod |
| 2 | Marfa | Marfa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 piece | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 piece | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 luck | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 luck | amod |
| 13 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 invited | mark |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 invited | aux:pass |
| 16 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 luck | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 visit | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 visit | det |
| 19 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 invited | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 slept | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slept | nsubj |
| 23 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 24 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 23 slept | advmod |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Poor Marfa | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Poor Marfa not said here | of such piece of good luck | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | invite | gerund · passive | good luck not said here | a visit | vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING» | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | Marfa | night | comfortably property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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