Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 82
About that time a certain maid bore a son and deserted him in his infancy.
Who acts: certain maid · What happens: bear, desert · To what, where: son, maid, infancy
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 maid), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maid | amod |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | nsubj |
| 7 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bore | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 deserted | cc |
| 11 | deserted | desert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bore | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 deserted | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 infancy | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 infancy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | infancy | infancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deserted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | a certain maid | a son | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | desert | past | a certain maid not said here | maid | maid's infancy | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme he=Source |
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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