Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 129
The last words of one of the narrators of the story are, "Now this old one was no mere man.
Who acts: last words · What happens: be · To what, where: mere 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 (last words), 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 | 3 words | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 man | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 words | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 narrators | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 narrators | det |
| 8 | narrators | narrator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 narrators | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 15 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 one | advmod |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 one | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 man | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 man | det |
| 21 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the last words of one of the narrators of the story | no mere man | tree rules |
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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