Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 163
A certain soldier was allowed to go home on furlough.
Who acts: certain soldier · What happens: allow, go · To what, where: certain soldier, furlough
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain soldier), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 soldier | amod |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 furlough | case |
| 10 | furlough | furlough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past · passive | a certain soldier | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | a certain soldier not said here | furlough | home property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on furlough=Location |
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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