Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 93
Besides all this, they resolved to build, for the use of all the faithful, a long bridge across swamps and where no man could find a footing.
Who acts: children, man · What happens: resolve, build, find · To what, where: use, footing
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 (children, man), 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 | Besides | besides | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 this | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 resolved | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 resolved | nsubj |
| 6 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 build | mark |
| 8 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 resolved | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 use | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 use | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 use | det |
| 12 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 build | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 faithful | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 faithful | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 faithful | det |
| 16 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 use | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bridge | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bridge | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bridge | amod |
| 20 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 use | conj |
| 21 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 swamps | case |
| 22 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bridge | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 find | cc |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 find | advmod |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 man | det |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 swamps | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 footing | det |
| 30 | footing | footing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | children = child | besides this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | children = child not said here | the use of all faithful and a long bridge across swamps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 3 | find | could | no man | a footing | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Topic |
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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