Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 127

"The Lord might as well have sent twice as much!"

Who acts: Lord · What happens: send · To what, where: much

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 (Lord), 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	_	8 sent	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lord	det
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sent	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	8 sent	cc
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sent	aux
8	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 much	advmod
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sent	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	might · perfect	the Lord	much					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme

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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