Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 150
Finding that the cause of this punishment is an unpaid debt of fifty roubles, Nikita ransoms the greybeard, who straightway disappears.
Who acts: Finding, Nikita, greybeard · What happens: find, be, ransom, disappear, cause · To what, where: cause, unpaid debt, greybeard, punishment
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 (Finding, Nikita, greybeard), 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 | Finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 debt | csubj |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 cause | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cause | det |
| 4 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finding | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 punishment | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 punishment | det |
| 7 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 debt | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 debt | det |
| 10 | unpaid | unpaid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 debt | amod |
| 11 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 roubles | case |
| 13 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 roubles | nummod |
| 14 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 debt | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ransoms | punct |
| 16 | Nikita | Nikita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ransoms | nsubj |
| 17 | ransoms | ransom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 debt | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 greybeard | det |
| 19 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ransoms | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 disappears | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 disappears | nsubj |
| 22 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disappears | nsubj |
| 23 | disappears | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 greybeard | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 debt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | the cause of this punishment | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Finding | a unpaid debt | of fifty roubles | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ransom | present | Nikita | the greybeard | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | disappear | present | the greybeard | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cause | this punishment | nom cause «event 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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