Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 52
We become well acquainted with its arrangements, with the cellar beneath its wooden floor, with the "corner of honor" in which are placed the "holy pictures," and with the stove which occupies so large a share of space, within which daily beats, as it were the heart of the house, above which is nightly taken the repose of the family.
Who acts: stove, share, spot, family · What happens: acquaint, place, occupy, be, take, arrange · To what, where: We, holy pictures, corner, repose, space
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stove, share, spot, family), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 acquainted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 acquainted | aux |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 acquainted | advmod |
| 4 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 arrangements | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arrangements | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 acquainted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cellar | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cellar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cellar | det |
| 11 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acquainted | obl |
| 12 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 floor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 floor | amod |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cellar | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 corner | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 corner | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 corner | det |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 corner | punct |
| 20 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 acquainted | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 honor | case |
| 22 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 corner | nmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 honor | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 placed | obl |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 placed | aux:pass |
| 27 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 corner | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pictures | det |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 pictures | punct |
| 30 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 pictures | amod |
| 31 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 placed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pictures | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 pictures | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 stove | cc |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 stove | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 stove | det |
| 37 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pictures | conj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 occupies | nsubj |
| 39 | occupies | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 stove | acl:relcl |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 large | advmod |
| 41 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 occupies | xcomp |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 share | det |
| 43 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 large | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 space | case |
| 45 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 share | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 beats | punct |
| 47 | within | within | ADP | _ | 48 which | case |
| 48 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 50 beats | det |
| 49 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 beats | amod |
| 50 | beats | beat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 large | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 heart | punct |
| 52 | as | as | ADP | _ | 56 heart | case |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 heart | nsubj |
| 54 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 heart | cop |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 heart | det |
| 56 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 placed | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 house | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 house | det |
| 59 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 heart | nmod |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 taken | punct |
| 61 | above | above | ADP | _ | 62 which | case |
| 62 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 65 taken | obl |
| 63 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 taken | aux:pass |
| 64 | nightly | nightly | ADV | _ | 65 taken | advmod |
| 65 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 placed | conj |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 repose | det |
| 67 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 taken | obj |
| 68 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 family | case |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 family | det |
| 70 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 repose | nmod |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 acquainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquaint speech: other | present · passive | We | with spot's arrangements; with the cellar beneath spot's wooden floor; well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | place | present · passive | the holy pictures and the stove | the corner of honor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: picture=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | occupy | present | the stove | large property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | past | share | as the heart; of the house | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | present · passive | the repose of the family | nightly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: repose=Theme | ||||
| 6 | arrange | spot | nom arrangement «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | share | space | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | repose | the family | nom repose «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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