Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 35
I shall be glad if it proves of service to them.
Who acts: I, account · What happens: be, prove · To what, where: students
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 (I, account), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 proves | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proves | nsubj |
| 7 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 service | case |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 proves | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 proves | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | I | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove a condition, not said to happen | present | account | students = student | of service | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer |
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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