Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 190
The Warlock threw his work aside and invited the Soldier to a wedding.
Who acts: Warlock · What happens: throw, invite, work · To what, where: work, Soldier
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 (Warlock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Warlock | det |
| 2 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 invited | cc |
| 8 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Soldier | det |
| 10 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invited | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wedding | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wedding | det |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invited | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the Warlock | warlock's work | aside property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 2 | invite | past | the Warlock not said here | the Soldier | to a wedding | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient | |||
| 3 | work | warlock | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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