Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 17
He flings her into a deep pool, and calls to her to say "shaved."
Who acts: rope · What happens: fling, call, say, shave · To what, where: wife, deep pool · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rope), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flings | nsubj |
| 2 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flings | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pool | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pool | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pool | amod |
| 7 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flings | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 calls | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 calls | cc |
| 10 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 flings | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 calls | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 calls | xcomp |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaved | punct |
| 16 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 say | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flings | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 flings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | present | rope | wife | a deep pool | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme into pool=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | present | wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | shave in a quote | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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