Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 144
Whenever the wind blew the Birch-tree creaked.
Who acts: wind · What happens: blow, creak · To what, where: Birch tree
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 (wind), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Whenever | advcl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Birch | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whenever | nsubj |
| 9 | creaked | creak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tree | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whenever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | creak | participle | the Birch tree not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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