Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 19
I have heard that in such and such a town lives a rich merchant who has a daughter; and that merchant's daughter is exceedingly kind to the poor and crippled.
Who acts: I, town, rich merchant, daughter · What happens: hear, live, have, be · To what, where: rich merchant, daughter
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 (I, town, rich merchant, daughter), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 such | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 such | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 3 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lives | cc |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 town | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 merchant | amod |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 has | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 kind | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 kind | cc |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 merchant | det |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 merchant | case |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 kind | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 kind | cop |
| 26 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 27 kind | advmod |
| 27 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 poor | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 poor | det |
| 30 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kind | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 crippled | cc |
| 32 | crippled | crippled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 kind | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | such property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | present | such town | a rich merchant | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a rich merchant | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that merchant's daughter | to the poor; exceedingly, kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | that merchant's daughter not said here | 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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