Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 13
[319] The king and queen lived to a great age, but then they fell ill, and despaired of ever recovering.
Who acts: king · What happens: live, fall, despair, recover · To what, where: 319
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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 319 | punct |
| 2 | 319 | 319 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 lived | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 319 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 queen | cc |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 age | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 age | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 age | amod |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 fell | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 18 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fell | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 despaired | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 despaired | cc |
| 21 | despaired | despair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 fell | conj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 recovering | mark |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 recovering | advmod |
| 24 | recovering | recover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 despaired | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the king and queen | 319 | to a great age | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | king | then | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | despair | participle | king not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | recover | gerund | king not said here | ever | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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