Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 79
It was some fifty versts long, whereas if it had been made in a straight line it would not have been more than five.
Who acts: town · What happens: be, wherea, make, not be · To what, where: town, straight line, five
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 (town), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 versts | det |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 versts | nummod |
| 5 | versts | verst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 long | nsubj |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whereas | punct |
| 8 | whereas | wherea | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 whereas | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 line | amod |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 would | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 line | acl:relcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 five | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 five | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 five | cop |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 25 five | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 more | fixed |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 would | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | town | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wherea | present | town not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | town | a straight line | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | not is a | infinitive · perfect | five | 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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