Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 48
"I have a father living, in whose granary I have seen just such a seed."
Who acts: man, father · What happens: have, live, see · To what, where: father, granary, seed
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 (man, father), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 father | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 granary | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 granary | case |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 granary | nmod:poss |
| 10 | granary | granary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 granary | acl:relcl |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 seed | advmod |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 seed | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 seed | det |
| 17 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | man | a father | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | a father not said here | granary | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in granary=Location | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect | man | such seed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seed=Stimulus |
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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