Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 120
As to weeds, there positively was not one to be seen.
What happens: not see · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 weeds | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seen | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 weeds | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 seen | expl |
| 6 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 12 seen | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 seen | advmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seen | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · passive | one | there | as weeds; positively property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as weed=Attribute |
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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