Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 115
The day for repayment came, but the poor man had not a single copeck.
Who acts: day, poor man · What happens: come, have · To what, where: single copeck
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 (day, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 repayment | case |
| 4 | repayment | repayment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 copeck | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 copeck | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 copeck | amod |
| 15 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the day for repayment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the poor man | a single copeck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copeck=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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