Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 82
Zachary sets to work, but at the end of a month he grows drowsy.
Who acts: Zachary · What happens: set, work, grow · To what, where: end
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 (Zachary), 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 | Zachary | Zachary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sets | nsubj |
| 2 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 work | mark |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sets | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grows | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 grows | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grows | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 month | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 month | det |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | nmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grows | nsubj |
| 14 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sets | conj |
| 15 | drowsy | drowsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grows | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present | Zachary | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | Zachary not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | Zachary | at the end of a month | drowsy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/82/