Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 170
The wind blew, the Birch creaked, and the Simpleton cried:
Who acts: wind, Birch, Simpleton · What happens: blow, creak, cry
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, Birch, Simpleton), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 creaked | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Birch | det |
| 6 | Birch | Birch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 creaked | nsubj |
| 7 | creaked | creak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Simpleton | det |
| 11 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | 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 | past | the Birch | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Simpleton | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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