Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 58
I held mine own, I grasped not at what was another's."
Who acts: I · What happens: hold, not grasp, be · To what, where: mine
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 held | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grasped | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 grasped | nsubj |
| 7 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 grasped | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 what | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 grasped | obj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 another | cop |
| 12 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 10 what | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 another | case |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | I | mine | own property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme | |||
| 2 | not grasp | past | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | past | 's another | tree rules |
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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