Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 55
The rich brother, hearing the story, climbed up the tree one night in hopes of obtaining a similar present.
Who acts: rich brother, hopes · What happens: hear, climb up, obtain · To what, where: story, tree, hopes, similar present
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 (rich brother, hopes), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 brother | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 9 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 climbed | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | obj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 night | nummod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hopes | case |
| 16 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 climbed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 obtaining | mark |
| 18 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 hopes | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 present | det |
| 20 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 present | amod |
| 21 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtaining | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the rich brother not said here | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | climb up | past | the rich brother | the tree | hopes | night | tree rules | ||
| 3 | obtain | gerund | hopes not said here | a similar present | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset present=Theme |
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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