Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 92
I've booked two souls instead of the soldier's one."
Who acts: I · What happens: book · To what, where: two souls
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 booked | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 booked | aux |
| 3 | booked | book | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 souls | nummod |
| 5 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 booked | obj |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 one | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 instead | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 soldier | case |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 booked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 booked | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 booked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | book | present · perfect | I | two souls | instead the soldier's one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=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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