Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 12
In a certain kingdom there lived a king and queen; they had a son, Prince Ivan, and to look after that son was appointed a tutor named Katoma.
Who acts: king · What happens: live, have, look, appoint, name · To what, where: king, certain kingdom, son, tutor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kingdom | amod |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 queen | cc |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ivan | punct |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ivan | compound |
| 18 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 look | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 look | cc |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | conj |
| 23 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 27 appointed | mark |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 son | det |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 appointed | aux:pass |
| 27 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 look | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tutor | det |
| 29 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 appointed | obj |
| 30 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 tutor | acl |
| 31 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 named | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king and queen | a certain kingdom; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | king | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | king not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | appoint | past · passive | that son | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme tutor=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | name | participle | a tutor not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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