Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 134
In each instance his forethought enabled his master to fill his barns while the other peasants lost their crops.
Who acts: forethought, other peasants · What happens: enable, fill, lose · To what, where: master, instance, barns, crops
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forethought, other peasants), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instance | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 instance | det |
| 3 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enabled | obl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 forethought | nmod:poss |
| 5 | forethought | forethought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enabled | nsubj |
| 6 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enabled | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fill | mark |
| 10 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 enabled | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 barns | nmod:poss |
| 12 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fill | obj |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 lost | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 peasants | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 peasants | amod |
| 16 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fill | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 crops | nmod:poss |
| 19 | crops | crop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lost | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | past | drought's forethought | drought's master | each instance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive | drought's forethought not said here | drought's barns | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent barn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | the other peasants | barns's crops | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Eventuality |
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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