Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 125
Soon afterwards an old man offered his services to the merchant, who appointed him his manager; and from that time all things went well with the merchant.
Who acts: old man, merchant, things, man · What happens: offer, appoint, go, service · To what, where: services, merchant, man
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 (old man, merchant, things, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 offered | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 offered | advmod |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | nsubj |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 services | nmod:poss |
| 8 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 offered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 merchant | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchant | det |
| 11 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appointed | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 appointed | nsubj |
| 14 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appointed | obj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 manager | nmod:poss |
| 17 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appointed | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 things | det |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | conj |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 merchant | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 merchant | det |
| 29 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | a old man | man's services | to the merchant goal; afterwards, soon property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent service=Theme to merchant=Goal | |||
| 2 | appoint | past | the merchant | man | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme manager=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | past | all things | time | with the merchant; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with merchant=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | service | man | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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