Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 55
When I was young, the grain was large and plentiful, but after a time it began to grow smaller and smaller."
Who acts: I, grain · What happens: be, begin, grow · To what, where: time
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 (I, grain), 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 young | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 large | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grain | det |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 large | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 large | cop |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plentiful | cc |
| 11 | plentiful | plentiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 large | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 time | cc |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 young | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 grow | mark |
| 20 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 grow | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 smaller | cc |
| 23 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 smaller | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the grain | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the grain not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | begin | past | grain | a time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | to-infinitive | grain not said here | small property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/55/