Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 131
There was a king, and he had a daughter with whom a general who lived over the way fell in love.
Who acts: king, general · What happens: be, have, live, fall · To what, where: daughter, way, love
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 (king, general), 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 | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 whom | case |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 daughter | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 general | det |
| 14 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 general | acl:relcl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 whom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | king | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a general | the way | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over way=Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | a general | love | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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