Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 90
They bargained and bargained, and came to an agreement.
Who acts: cornfields · What happens: bargain, come · To what, where: agreement
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 (cornfields), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bargained | nsubj |
| 2 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bargained | cc |
| 4 | bargained | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bargained | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 came | cc |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bargained | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 agreement | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 agreement | det |
| 10 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bargained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bargain | past | cornfields = cornfield | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bargain | past | cornfields = cornfield not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | cornfields = cornfield not said here | a agreement | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to agreement=Initial_Location |
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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