Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 60
Next morning the King arrives and looks--the doctor has had no success at all--he's only messed the dead body all over with muck!
Who acts: King, doctor · What happens: arrive, look, have, mess · To what, where: success, all, dead body
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 (King, doctor), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrives | nsubj |
| 5 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looks | cc |
| 7 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrives | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doctor | det |
| 10 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 arrives | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 success | det |
| 14 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 had | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 messed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 messed | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 messed | aux |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 messed | advmod |
| 21 | messed | mess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 arrives | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 body | det |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 body | amod |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 messed | obj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 over | advmod |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 21 messed | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 muck | case |
| 28 | muck | muck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 messed | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | the King | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the King not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | the doctor | no success | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient | |||
| 4 | mess | present · passive | King | the dead body | with muck; over property | 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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