Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 78
The Soldier hadn't expected such a job as this, but there was no help for it.
Who acts: help · What happens: not expect, be · To what, where: Soldier
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 (help), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expected | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expected | advmod |
| 5 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 job | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 job | det |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expected | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 expected | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 was | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expected | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 help | det |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | past · perfect · passive | the Soldier | as this | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme job=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no help for job | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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