Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 105
Marko, his brows knit, his legs contorted, was scarcely able to hold out.
Who acts: brows, Marko · What happens: knit, contort, be, hold out · To what, where: Marko, legs
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brows, Marko), 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 | Marko | Marko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 able | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knit | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brows | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knit | nsubj |
| 5 | knit | knit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Marko | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 legs | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 legs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Marko | appos |
| 9 | contorted | contort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 legs | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Marko | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 12 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 13 able | advmod |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hold | mark |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 hold | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knit | present | Marko's brows | Marko not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marko=Product | ||||
| 2 | contort | participle | Marko's legs not said here | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Marko | able, scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold out | to-infinitive | Marko not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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