Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 51
So the Pope walked about in front of the royal gates, forced himself on the notice of the people there, and gave out that he was a doctor.
Who acts: Pope, royal gates · What happens: walk, force, give out, be, notice · To what, where: Pope, notice, doctor, people
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pope, royal gates), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pope | det |
| 3 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 front | case |
| 7 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gates | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gates | det |
| 10 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gates | amod |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forced | punct |
| 13 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gates | acl |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 forced | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 notice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 notice | det |
| 17 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forced | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 notice | nmod |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 people | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gave | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 gave | compound:prt |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 doctor | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 doctor | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 doctor | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 doctor | det |
| 30 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Pope | about front of the royal gates | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about front=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | force | participle | the royal gates not said here | Pope | the notice of the people | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give out | past | the Pope not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Pope | a doctor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | notice | the people | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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