Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 144
"Was I born into the world worse than all other men, that not a single girl is willing to marry me?
Who acts: single girl · What happens: bear, be, marry · To what, where: youth, world
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single girl), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 2 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 8 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 born | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 men | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 worse | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 willing | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 willing | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 girl | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 willing | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 willing | cop |
| 20 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 born | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 willing | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past · passive | the youth = youth | the world | bad property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a single girl | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | a single girl not said here | the youth = youth | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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