Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 9
After exhausting his stock of presents, he finds that there remains one beggar of miserable appearance to whom he has nothing to offer, so he takes him home to dinner.
Who acts: Brother · What happens: exhaust, find, remain, have, offer, take · To what, where: stock, one beggar, nothing, deathbed, dinner, presents
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 (Brother), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 exhausting | mark |
| 2 | exhausting | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 finds | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 stock | nmod:poss |
| 4 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exhausting | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 presents | case |
| 6 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stock | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 exhausting | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 remains | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 remains | expl |
| 12 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 finds | ccomp |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 beggar | nummod |
| 14 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remains | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 appearance | case |
| 16 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 appearance | amod |
| 17 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beggar | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 whom | case |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 appearance | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 whom | acl:relcl |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 has | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 offer | mark |
| 24 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 nothing | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 takes | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 takes | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 takes | nsubj |
| 28 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 finds | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 takes | obj |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 takes | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 dinner | case |
| 32 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 takes | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | gerund | Brother not said here | Brother's stock of presents | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stock=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | present | Brother | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | present | one beggar of miserable appearance to one beggar of miserable appearance to one beggar | there | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beggar=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Brother | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 5 | offer | to-infinitive | Brother not said here | nothing not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | take | present | Brother | deathbed | dinner | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dinner=Destination | ||
| 7 | stock | Brother | presents | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent 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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