Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 10
The two heroes had a talk, and agreed to live together, and join in getting their food.
Who acts: two heroes · What happens: have, agree, live together, join in, get · To what, where: talk, food
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two heroes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heroes | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 heroes | nummod |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 talk | det |
| 6 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 agreed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 agreed | cc |
| 9 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 agreed | xcomp |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 live | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 join | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 join | cc |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 join | compound:prt |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 join | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 food | nmod:poss |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the two heroes | a talk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | the two heroes not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live together not said to happen | to-infinitive | the two heroes not said here | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | join in | present | the two heroes not said here | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | get | gerund | the two heroes not said here | eyes's food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
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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