Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 5
A neighbor made an offer of marriage, the wedding was celebrated, and Marfa is now living happily.
Who acts: neighbor, Marfa · What happens: make, celebrate, live, offer · To what, where: offer, neighbor, marriage
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 (neighbor, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 neighbor | det |
| 2 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 neighbor | acl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 offer | det |
| 5 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offer | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 neighbor | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 12 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 living | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 living | cc |
| 15 | Marfa | Marfa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 living | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 living | aux |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 living | advmod |
| 18 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 celebrated | conj |
| 19 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 18 living | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a neighbor not said here | a offer of marriage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offer=Product | ||||
| 2 | celebrate | past · passive | a neighbor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | present · progressive | Marfa | now | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | offer | marriage | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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