Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 123
They lived together, and time went on and the young man still remained a bachelor, and was so handsome that words cannot describe it.
Who acts: merchants, young man, words · What happens: live together, go on, remain, be, not describe · To what, where: bachelor
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchants, young man, words), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 remained | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remained | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 remained | advmod |
| 14 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bachelor | det |
| 16 | bachelor | bachelor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remained | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 handsome | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 handsome | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 handsome | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 handsome | advmod |
| 21 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 describe | mark |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 describe | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 describe | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 describe | advmod |
| 26 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 handsome | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 describe | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | past | merchants = merchant | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | time | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | past | the young man | a bachelor | still | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bachelor=Attribute | |||
| 4 | is | past | merchants = merchant not said here | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not describe | can | words | bachelor | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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