Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 200
She spoke, and splashed the holy water over him; in a moment he turned into mere dust and ashes, which blew to the winds.
Who acts: news, son, mere dust · What happens: speak, splash, turn, blow · To what, where: holy water, mere dust, winds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, son, mere dust), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 splashed | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 splashed | cc |
| 5 | splashed | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 7 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 water | amod |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 splashed | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 splashed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 dust | case |
| 18 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dust | amod |
| 19 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ashes | cc |
| 21 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dust | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blew | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 blew | nsubj |
| 24 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dust | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 winds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 winds | det |
| 27 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 blew | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | news | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | splash | past | news not said here | the holy water | over son | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over he=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn | past | son | mere dust and ashes | moment | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into dust=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | blow | past | mere dust and ashes | the winds | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wind=Recipient |
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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