Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 80
And so the Emperor ordained that a bridge should be made the whole way.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: ordain, make · To what, where: bridge
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 (Emperor), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ordained | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 ordained | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ordained | nsubj |
| 5 | ordained | ordain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ordained | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ordain | past | the Emperor | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | should · passive | a bridge | the whole way obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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