Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 70
When he had served his time, he retired from the army, and began to live at his ease.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: serve, retire, begin, live · To what, where: army, ease
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 served | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 served | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | aux |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 retired | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 retired | nsubj |
| 9 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 army | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 army | det |
| 12 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 retired | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 retired | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 ease | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ease | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 live | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past · perfect | Soldier | time | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | retire | past | Soldier | the army | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from army=Source | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Soldier not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | Soldier not said here | Soldier's ease | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=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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