Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 56
His appearance being against him, he has some difficulty in finding a wife, rich as he is.
Who acts: appearance, difficulty · What happens: have, find, be · To what, where: difficulty, wife
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 (appearance, difficulty), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 appearance | acl |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 being | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 appearance | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 difficulty | det |
| 10 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 finding | mark |
| 12 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 difficulty | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finding | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rich | punct |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wife | amod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 is | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 is | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rich | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | soldier's appearance | some difficulty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | some difficulty not said here | a wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be | present | appearance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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