Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 52
In the same way as before he asked the King for a private room, a tub of water, a large table, and a sharp sword.
Who acts: Pope · What happens: ask · To what, where: sharp sword, King, same way
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 way | amod |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 4 way | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 13 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 room | amod |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tub | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tub | det |
| 17 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tub | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 table | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 table | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 table | amod |
| 23 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sword | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sword | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sword | det |
| 27 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sword | amod |
| 28 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Pope | a sharp sword | the King | the same way | for a private room and a large table | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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