Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 117
Page 32--bare amended to bore--"Well, the mistress bore a son ..."
Who acts: you, mistress · What happens: amend, bore, bear · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mistress), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amended | compound |
| 2 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 bare | punct |
| 4 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Page | amod |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bore | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bore | case |
| 7 | bore | bore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 bore | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bore | punct |
| 10 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 bore | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Well | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mistress | det |
| 13 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bore | nsubj |
| 14 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bore | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bore | obj |
| 17 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | bore | imperative | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | past | the mistress | a son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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