Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 138
[455] He served Nicholas several years, and went on serving until such time as there remained to him nothing either for board or lodging.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: serve, go, remain · To what, where: 455, nothing, Lord
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 (Lord), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 455 | punct |
| 2 | 455 | 455 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 served | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 455 | punct |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 served | nsubj |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obj |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 served | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | conj |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 serving | mark |
| 13 | serving | serve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 serving | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 remained | mark |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 remained | advmod |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 serving | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 remained | obl |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 remained | obj |
| 23 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 25 board | cc:preconj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 board | case |
| 25 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nothing | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 lodging | cc |
| 27 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 board | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | Lord | 455 | year | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nicholas=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go | past | Lord not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | serve | gerund | Lord not said here | time | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | participle | Lord not said here | nothing | Lord | there | for board or lodging | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nothing=Attribute |
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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