Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 146
A father sets out with his boy for "the bazaar," hoping to find a teacher there who will instruct the child in such science as enables people "to work little, and feed delicately, and dress well."
Who acts: father · What happens: set out, hope, find, instruct, enable, work · To what, where: teacher, child, such science, people, little · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sets | nsubj |
| 3 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sets | compound:prt |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 boy | nmod:poss |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sets | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 bazaar | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bazaar | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bazaar | det |
| 11 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 14 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sets | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 teacher | det |
| 18 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 find | advmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 instruct | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 instruct | aux |
| 22 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 instruct | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 science | case |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 science | amod |
| 27 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 instruct | obl |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 enables | mark |
| 29 | enables | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 instruct | advcl |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 enables | obj |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 enables | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 work | mark |
| 33 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 enables | advcl |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 work | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 feed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 feed | cc |
| 37 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sets | parataxis |
| 38 | delicately | delicately | ADV | _ | 37 feed | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dress | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dress | cc |
| 41 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 feed | conj |
| 42 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 dress | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sets | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | a father | with father's boy for the bazaar | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | a father not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | a father not said here | a teacher | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Topic | |||
| 4 | instruct speech: other | future | the child | such science | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | enable | present | people | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | little | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent little=Material | |||||
| 7 | feed in a quote | present | delicately property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | dress in a quote | infinitive | well property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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