Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 98
"'How ought the man who built this bridge to be rewarded?' '
Who acts: man · What happens: build, reward · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ought | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ought | punct |
| 3 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ought | advmod |
| 4 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ought | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 built | nsubj |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bridge | det |
| 10 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rewarded | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 13 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 bridge | acl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 ought | punct |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ought | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | past | the man | this bridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Product | ||||
| 2 | reward in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the man not said here | this bridge not said here | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
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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