Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 8, sentence 87
He lived, and was merry, and never suffered the poor man to come to his door, so ungracious was he.
Who acts: MARK · What happens: live, be, not suffer, come · To what, where: poor man, door, man
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, 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 (MARK), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 merry | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 merry | cc |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 merry | cop |
| 6 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 suffered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 suffered | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 suffered | advmod |
| 10 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 merry | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 suffered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 suffered | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ungracious | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 ungracious | advmod |
| 21 | ungracious | ungracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | conj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 he | cop |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ungracious | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | MARK | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | merry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not suffer | past | the poor man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | MARK's door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | man | tree rules |
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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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