Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 78
There was a certain town, the road to which was a very roundabout one.
Who acts: certain town, road · What happens: be
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 (certain town, road), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 4 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 town | amod |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 road | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 town | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 roundabout | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 roundabout | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 roundabout | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 roundabout | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 roundabout | advmod |
| 14 | roundabout | roundabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 road | nmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 roundabout | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a certain town | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the road | to a roundabout | tree rules |
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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