Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 74
In the morning the King saw the new palace, and sent to enquire who it was that lived in it.
Who acts: King, palace · What happens: see, send, enquire, be, live · To what, where: new palace, palace
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 (King, palace), 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 | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sent | cc |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 enquire | mark |
| 14 | enquire | enquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | xcomp |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 enquire | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 who | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | cop |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lived | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | the new palace | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | send | participle | the King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | enquire speech: other | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | palace | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | live | past | palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
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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