Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 128
The merchant, in accordance with his old manager's instructions, undertook the task, and after a series of adventures succeeded in accomplishing it.
Who acts: merchant, old manager · What happens: undertake, succeed, accomplish, instruct · To what, where: task, adventures
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 (merchant, old manager), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undertook | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accordance | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 accordance | case |
| 5 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 merchant | appos |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 instructions | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 manager | nmod:poss |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 manager | amod |
| 9 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 manager | case |
| 11 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 accordance | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 merchant | punct |
| 13 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 task | det |
| 15 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undertook | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 series | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 series | cc |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 series | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 series | det |
| 20 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undertook | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 adventures | case |
| 22 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 series | nmod |
| 23 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 adventures | acl |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 accomplishing | mark |
| 25 | accomplishing | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 succeeded | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 accomplishing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 undertook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past | the merchant | the task | after a series of adventures | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | succeed | participle | adventures not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | accomplish | gerund | task | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | instruct | merchant's old manager | nom instruction «communication 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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