Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 6
The Novgorod man promised to fulfil this request, and the black stranger showed him a place where the fish swarmed by thousands.
Who acts: Novgorod man, black stranger, fish · What happens: promise, fulfil, show, swarm · To what, where: request, place, man
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 (Novgorod man, black stranger, fish), 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 | Novgorod | Novgorod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 man | compound |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fulfil | mark |
| 6 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 request | det |
| 8 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fulfil | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 showed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 showed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stranger | amod |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showed | nsubj |
| 14 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 showed | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showed | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 swarmed | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fish | det |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swarmed | nsubj |
| 21 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 thousands | case |
| 23 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 swarmed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the Novgorod man | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fulfil not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Novgorod man not said here | this request | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show | past | the black stranger | a place | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic | |||
| 4 | swarm | participle | the fish | by thousands | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by thousand=Location |
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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