Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 90
In it a merchant is described as having much money but no children.
What happens: describe, have · To what, where: opening, much money
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 described | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 described | aux:pass |
| 6 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 having | mark |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 described | advcl |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 money | amod |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 money | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | opening | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | much money but no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
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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