Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 21

In one of its Russian forms, it is told of the old parents of a boy named Lutonya, who weep over the hypothetical death of an imaginary grandchild, thinking how sad it would have been if a log which the old woman has dropped had killed that as yet merely potential infant.

Who acts: Lutonya, old woman, idea, imaginary grandchild · What happens: tell, name, weep, think, drop, kill · To what, where: idea, boy, hypothetical death, log · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lutonya, old woman, idea, imaginary grandchild), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 told	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 forms	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 forms	nmod:poss
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forms	amod
6	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 forms	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 parents	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parents	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 parents	amod
14	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 boy	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 parents	nmod
18	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 boy	acl
19	Lutonya	Lutonya	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 named	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 weep	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 weep	nsubj
22	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Lutonya	conj
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 death	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 death	det
25	hypothetical	hypothetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 death	amod
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 weep	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 grandchild	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 grandchild	det
29	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 grandchild	amod
30	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 death	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thinking	punct
32	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 killed	csubj:pass
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 sad	advmod
34	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 thinking	ccomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sad	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 sad	aux
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 killed	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 killed	aux:pass
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	49 killed	mark
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 log	det
41	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 killed	nsubj:pass
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 dropped	obj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 woman	det
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 woman	amod
45	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 dropped	nsubj
46	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 dropped	aux
47	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 log	acl:relcl
48	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 killed	aux
49	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 infant	mark
51	as	as	ADP	_	52 yet	case
52	yet	yet	ADV	_	55 infant	advmod
53	merely	merely	ADV	_	54 potential	advmod
54	potential	potential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 infant	amod
55	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 killed	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		idea		in one; of idea's Russian forms; of the old parents of a boy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	name	participle		a boy not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	weep	present	Lutonya		the hypothetical death of a imaginary grandchild		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drop	present · perfect	the old woman	a log			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
6	kill a condition, not said to happen	infinitive · perfect · passive		a log			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	form		idea				nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	die		a imaginary grandchild				nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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