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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

nsubjauxmarkcasexcompccdet:predetdetnsubjconjdetamodobjnsubjacl:relcldetobjpunctccdetnmod:posscasensubjcopadvmodparataxiscasedetoblccconjpunctrootIPRONhaveAUXheardVERBthatSCONJinADPsuchADJandCCONJsuchDETaDETtownNOUNlivesVERBaDETrichADJmerchantNOUNwhoPRONhasVERBaDETdaughterNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJthatDETmerchantNOUN'sPARTdaughterNOUNisAUXexceedinglyADVkindADJtoADPtheDETpoorADJandCCONJcrippledADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 heardnsubj
2havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 heardaux
3heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_6 suchmark
5ininADP_6 suchcase
6suchsuchADJDegree=Pos ExtPos=ADP3 heardxcomp
7andandCCONJ_11 livescc
8suchsuchDETPronType=Ind10 towndet:predet
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 towndet
10towntownNOUNNumber=Sing11 livesnsubj
11livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 heardconj
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 merchantdet
13richrichADJDegree=Pos14 merchantamod
14merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing11 livesobj
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 hasnsubj
16hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 merchantacl:relcl
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 daughterdet
18daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing16 hasobj
19;;PUNCT_27 kindpunct
20andandCCONJ_27 kindcc
21thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem22 merchantdet
22merchantmerchantNOUNNumber=Sing24 daughternmod:poss
23's'sPART_22 merchantcase
24daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing27 kindnsubj
25isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 kindcop
26exceedinglyexceedinglyADV_27 kindadvmod
27kindkindADJDegree=Pos3 heardparataxis
28totoADP_30 poorcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 poordet
30poorpoorADJDegree=Pos27 kindobl
31andandCCONJ_32 crippledcc
32crippledcrippledADJDegree=Pos27 kindconj
33..PUNCT_3 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpresent · perfectIsuch propertyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2livepresentsuch towna rich merchantvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location
3havepresenta rich merchanta daughtervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4ispresentthat merchant's daughterto the poor; exceedingly, kind propertytree rules
5bethat merchant's daughter not said heretree 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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