Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 136
In the days of old there lived in a certain village two young men.
Who acts: old · What happens: live · To what, where: two young men, certain village
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old), 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 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 old | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 old | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 village | amod |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | old | two young men | a certain village | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=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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