Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 55

Now he had an old grandfather, as white as a _lun_, who had lived a hundred years and a bit.

Who acts: SOLDIER, lun · What happens: have, live · To what, where: old grandfather

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, lun), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grandfather	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grandfather	amod
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 white	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	9 white	case
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 lun	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lun	det
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 lun	punct
13	lun	lun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 white	obl
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 lun	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lived	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lived	aux
18	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 lun	acl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hundred	det
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	obl:unmarked
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bit	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 years	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	SOLDIER	a old grandfather			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Patient
2	live	past · perfect	a lun				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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