Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 111
One day the poor man, who was in great distress, went to the house of the rich man and begged for a loan.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: be, go, beg · To what, where: great distress, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 distress | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 distress | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 distress | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 distress | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 distress | amod |
| 11 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 begged | cc |
| 22 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 went | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 loan | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 loan | det |
| 25 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 begged | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor man and great distress | great distress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the house of the rich man | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | for a loan | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for loan=Topic |
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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