Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 59
Instead of weeping there began to be happiness and rejoicing; the Soldier was hospitably treated and well rewarded.
What happens: weep, begin, be, treat, reward · To what, where: happiness, Soldier
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 weeping | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 began | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 weeping | advmod |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 happiness | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happiness | cop |
| 8 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rejoicing | cc |
| 10 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happiness | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 treated | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Soldier | det |
| 13 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 treated | aux:pass |
| 15 | hospitably | hospitably | ADV | _ | 16 treated | advmod |
| 16 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 began | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rewarded | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 rewarded | advmod |
| 19 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 treated | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | there | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | happiness and rejoicing | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | treat | past · passive | the Soldier | hospitably property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | reward | participle | well property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=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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