Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 42
Once upon a time there was a Soldier who served God and the great Gosudar for fifteen years, without ever setting eyes on his parents.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: be, serve, set · To what, where: God, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Soldier | det |
| 8 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 served | nsubj |
| 10 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Soldier | acl:relcl |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 served | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Gosudar | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Gosudar | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Gosudar | amod |
| 15 | Gosudar | Gosudar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 God | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 17 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 served | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 setting | punct |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 setting | mark |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 setting | advmod |
| 22 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 served | advcl |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 setting | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 parents | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 parents | nmod:poss |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 setting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a Soldier | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | serve | past | a Soldier | God and the great Gosudar | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | |||
| 3 | set | gerund | a Soldier not said here | eyes | ever | on SOLDIER's parents | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on parent=Destination |
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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