Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 146
In that forest was living a mighty hero who was quite blind.
Who acts: mighty hero · What happens: live, be · To what, where: mighty hero, forest
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 (mighty hero), 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 | _ | 3 forest | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 forest | det |
| 3 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 living | aux |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hero | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hero | amod |
| 8 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 living | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 blind | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 blind | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 blind | advmod |
| 12 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hero | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | a mighty hero | that forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hero=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a mighty hero | blind property | tree rules |
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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