Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 7
Now the Pope had a few biscuits in his cassock, and the companion he had picked up had a couple of small loaves.
Who acts: Pope, companion · What happens: have, pick up · To what, where: few biscuits, cassock, companion, couple
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, companion), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pope | det |
| 3 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 biscuits | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 biscuits | amod |
| 7 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cassock | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 cassock | nmod:poss |
| 10 | cassock | cassock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 biscuits | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 companion | det |
| 14 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 picked | aux |
| 17 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 companion | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 picked | compound:prt |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 couple | det |
| 21 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 loaves | case |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 loaves | amod |
| 24 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 couple | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Pope | a few biscuits | Pope's cassock | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Patient | ||
| 2 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | the companion not said here | companion | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the companion | a couple of small loaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=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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