Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 85
The wolf offers to go and enquire, and spends three or four months in solving the problem.
Who acts: wolf · What happens: offer, go, enquire, spend, solve · To what, where: problem
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 (wolf), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offers | nsubj |
| 3 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 offers | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 enquire | cc |
| 7 | enquire | enquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spends | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spends | cc |
| 10 | spends | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 offers | conj |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 months | nummod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 four | cc |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 three | conj |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spends | obj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 solving | mark |
| 16 | solving | solve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spends | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 problem | det |
| 18 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 solving | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | the wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wolf not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enquire speech: other | infinitive | the wolf not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spend | present | the wolf not said here | month | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | solve | gerund | the wolf not said here | the problem | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic |
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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