Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 39
But as for his elder brothers they did nothing but exercise their horses, and curl their hair, and dye their mustaches.
Who acts: skazkas · What happens: do, exercise, curl, dye · To what, where: nothing, horses, hair, mustaches
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 (skazkas), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 6 brothers | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | compound |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 did | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 did | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 exercise | cc |
| 11 | exercise | exercise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 nothing | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exercise | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 curl | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 curl | cc |
| 16 | curl | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 did | parataxis |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hair | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 curl | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dye | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dye | cc |
| 21 | dye | dye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 curl | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mustaches | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mustaches | mustache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dye | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | skazkas = skazka | nothing | as Vanya's elder brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | exercise | present | skazkas = skazka not said here | skazkas's horses | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | curl | present | skazkas's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | |||||
| 4 | dye | present | skazkas's mustaches | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mustache=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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