Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 131
This has been left open by a nobleman who is ready to sacrifice himself for the sake of others.
Who acts: nobleman · What happens: leave, be, sacrifice · To what, where: This, fish
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 left | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 left | xcomp |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 nobleman | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nobleman | det |
| 8 | nobleman | nobleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ready | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ready | cop |
| 11 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nobleman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sacrifice | mark |
| 13 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 sacrifice | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 sake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sake | det |
| 17 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sacrifice | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 others | case |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sake | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · perfect · passive | a nobleman | This | open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | a nobleman | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | a nobleman not said here | fish | for the sake of others | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
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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