Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 90
By the time the wolf-fiend has made a third journey in order to settle a doubt which Zachary describes as weighing on his mind--as to the numerical relation of the large beasts to the small--the three years have passed away.
Who acts: doubt, Zachary · What happens: make, settle, describe, weigh, pass away, mind · To what, where: wolf fiend, doubt, mind, three years
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 (doubt, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fiend | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fiend | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wolf | punct |
| 7 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 journey | amod |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 settle | mark |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 in | fixed |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 settle | mark |
| 16 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 doubt | det |
| 18 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settle | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 describes | nsubj |
| 20 | Zachary | Zachary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 describes | nsubj |
| 21 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 doubt | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 weighing | mark |
| 23 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 describes | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 mind | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mind | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 weighing | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 relation | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 32 relation | case |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 as | fixed |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 relation | det |
| 31 | numerical | numerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 relation | amod |
| 32 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 settle | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 beasts | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 beasts | det |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beasts | amod |
| 36 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 relation | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 small | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 small | det |
| 39 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 beasts | nmod |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 45 passed | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 years | det |
| 42 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 years | nummod |
| 43 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 passed | aux |
| 45 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 relation | conj |
| 46 | away | away | ADV | _ | 45 passed | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | the wolf fiend | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary journey=Product | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | a doubt | as the numerical relation of the large beasts to the small | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme doubt=Location | ||||
| 3 | describe | present | a doubt | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | weigh | gerund | a doubt not said here | Zachary's mind | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pass away | present · perfect · passive | the three years | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mind | Zachary | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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