Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 57
"Because I lived according to the law of the Lord," answered the old man. "
Who acts: old man · What happens: live, accord, answer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man), 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 | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 lived | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 law | case |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 according | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 law | det |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Lord | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lord | det |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 law | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | the old man = man | accord the law of the Lord | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the old man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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