Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 29
The two elder brothers were such fine strapping fellows! so tall and stout!
Who acts: two elder brothers · What happens: be · To what, where: such fine strapping fellows
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers), 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 | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fellows | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fellows | cop |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellows | amod |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellows | amod |
| 8 | strapping | strapping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fellows | compound |
| 9 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 tall | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 tall | advmod |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fellows | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stout | cc |
| 14 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tall | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 fellows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the two elder brothers | such fine strapping fellows | 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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