Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 85
"He has served his time honestly and honorably," is the reply. "
Who acts: soldier · What happens: serve, be · To what, where: reply · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (soldier), 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 served | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 served | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 served | aux |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 reply | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obj |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 4 served | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 honorably | cc |
| 9 | honorably | honorably | ADV | _ | 7 honestly | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 reply | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reply | det |
| 14 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 reply | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | present · perfect | soldier | time | honestly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | be speech: assert | present | the reply | 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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