Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 76
In the princely halls there were more boyars and nobles than a single glance could take in.
Who acts: more boyars · What happens: be, take in · To what, where: princely halls
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 (more boyars), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 halls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 halls | det |
| 3 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 halls | amod |
| 4 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 boyars | amod |
| 8 | boyars | boyar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 take | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nobles | cc |
| 10 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 boyars | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 glance | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 glance | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 glance | amod |
| 14 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boyars | nmod |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 were | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 take | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the princely halls; there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take in | could | more boyars than a single glance and nobles | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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