Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 51
There were two brothers (says a popular tale), the one rich, the other poor.
Who acts: two brothers · What happens: be, say · To what, where: popular tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two brothers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 8 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tale | amod |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 tale | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rich | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rich | det |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 rich | nummod |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 poor | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poor | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poor | amod |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rich | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | a popular tale | 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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