Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Iron Wolf, sentence 19
Now near to where he lived was a General who had a lovely daughter, and this daughter fell in love with the rich man.
Who acts: servant, daughter · What happens: live, be, have, fall · To what, where: lovely daughter, love
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Iron Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, daughter), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 near | advmod |
| 2 | near | near | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 where | case |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 General | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 General | det |
| 9 | General | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | xcomp |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 General | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 13 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 daughter | amod |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | servant | near property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | servant not said here | general property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a lovely daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | this daughter | love | with the rich man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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