Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 107
There was a certain king, whose wife went out one day to walk in the garden. "
Who acts: certain king, wife · What happens: be, go out, walk · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain king, wife), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 walk | mark |
| 14 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walk | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a certain king | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | wife | day | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |
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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