Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 27
Astonished at the result, the peasant enquired what sort of bedstead that was which had been mentioned with so much effect.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: astonish, enquire, mention, sort · To what, where: sort, Astonished result, bedstead
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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 | Astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 result | amod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 result | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 result | det |
| 4 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enquired | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 result | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peasant | det |
| 7 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enquired | nsubj |
| 8 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enquired | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bedstead | case |
| 12 | bedstead | bedstead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 mentioned | obj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 mentioned | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 18 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sort | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 effect | case |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 much | advmod |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 effect | amod |
| 22 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mentioned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 enquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | astonish | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | enquire speech: other | past | the peasant | what sort of bedstead | the Astonished result | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sort=Recipient | |||
| 3 | mention speech: other | past · perfect · passive | what sort of bedstead | with much effect | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sort | bedstead | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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