Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 166

In old times the Soldier had been very intimate with him: why shouldn't he go and see his friend?

Who acts: Soldier · What happens: be, not go, see · To what, where: friend

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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 times	case
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 times	amod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 intimate	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Soldier	det
5	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 intimate	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 intimate	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 intimate	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 intimate	advmod
9	intimate	intimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 intimate	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 go	advmod
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 go	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 intimate	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 intimate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the Soldier		time	with master; intimate property	tree rules
2	not go	should	soldier				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	infinitive	soldier not said here	soldier's friend			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus

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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