Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 77
Then they presented a petition to the Emperor, and he ordained as follows.
Who acts: fiends, hand · What happens: present, ordain, follow · To what, where: petition, Emperor
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 (fiends, hand), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 presented | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 petition | det |
| 5 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ordained | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ordained | nsubj |
| 12 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 presented | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 follows | mark |
| 14 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ordained | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | fiends = fiend | a petition | the Emperor | then | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to emperor=Recipient | ||
| 2 | ordain | past | hand | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | present | hand not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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