Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 74
In honor of St. Nicholas he would have a taper lighted and a service performed, but about Elijah the Prophet he forgot so much as to think.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: have, light, perform, forget, think, honor · To what, where: taper, honor, much, Nicholas
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: who acts (Nicholas), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 honor | case |
| 2 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Nicholas | case |
| 4 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 honor | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 taper | det |
| 10 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 11 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 taper | acl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 service | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taper | conj |
| 15 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 taper | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgot | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 forgot | cc |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 Elijah | case |
| 19 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 forgot | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Prophet | det |
| 21 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Elijah | appos |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 forgot | nsubj |
| 23 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | conj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forgot | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 think | mark |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 think | mark |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 much | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | Nicholas | a taper and a service | honor of Nicholas St. | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Patient | |||
| 2 | light | participle | a taper and a service not said here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | perform | participle | a taper and a service not said here | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | forget | past | Nicholas | much | about Elijah | tree rules | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | honor | Nicholas St. | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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