Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 107
"Yonder lives a widow who takes in beggars; go to her."
Who acts: widow · What happens: live, take, go · To what, where: widow, beggars
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| 2 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 3 lives | advmod |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 widow | det |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 widow | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 beggars | case |
| 9 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 takes | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lives | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | a widow | yonder property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | a widow | beggars | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in beggar=Location | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | Widow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_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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