Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 62
And do thou crawl, O Bug, the bun-like, beneath the ash, and spread abroad this news of me, the Spider, the wrestler, the hero bold--that the Spider, the wrestler, the hero bold, no longer in the world exists; that they have sent him to Kazan; that in Kazan, upon a block, they've chopped his head off, and the block destroyed."
Who acts: thou, witnesses, Kazan · What happens: crawl, spread, exist, send, chop off, destroy · To what, where: ash, news, world, witnesses, Kazan, head
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 (thou, witnesses, Kazan), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crawl | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 crawl | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 crawl | nsubj |
| 4 | crawl | crawl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bug | punct |
| 6 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 Bug | case |
| 7 | Bug | Bug | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crawl | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 like | det |
| 10 | bun | bun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 like | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 bun | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Bug | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ash | punct |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 ash | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ash | det |
| 16 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crawl | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spread | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spread | cc |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crawl | parataxis |
| 20 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 19 spread | advmod |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 news | det |
| 22 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 news | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Spider | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Spider | det |
| 27 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 wrestler | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wrestler | det |
| 30 | wrestler | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Spider | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bold | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bold | det |
| 33 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bold | compound |
| 34 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Spider | conj |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 Spider | punct |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 Spider | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Spider | det |
| 38 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crawl | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 wrestler | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wrestler | det |
| 41 | wrestler | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Spider | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 bold | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 bold | det |
| 44 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bold | compound |
| 45 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Spider | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 longer | punct |
| 47 | no | no | ADV | _ | 48 longer | advmod |
| 48 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 crawl | advmod |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 world | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 world | det |
| 51 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 exists | obl |
| 52 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 longer | ccomp |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 sent | punct |
| 54 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 57 sent | mark |
| 55 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 56 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 sent | aux |
| 57 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crawl | parataxis |
| 58 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 sent | obj |
| 59 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 Kazan | case |
| 60 | Kazan | Kazan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 sent | obl |
| 61 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 64 Kazan | punct |
| 62 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 64 Kazan | nsubj |
| 63 | in | in | ADP | _ | 64 Kazan | case |
| 64 | Kazan | Kazan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 80 destroyed | nsubj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 block | punct |
| 66 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 68 block | case |
| 67 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 68 block | det |
| 68 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 Kazan | appos |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 72 chopped | punct |
| 70 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 72 chopped | nsubj |
| 71 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 72 chopped | aux |
| 72 | chopped | chop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 64 Kazan | acl:relcl |
| 73 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 74 head | nmod:poss |
| 74 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 chopped | obj |
| 75 | off | off | ADP | _ | 72 chopped | compound:prt |
| 76 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 80 destroyed | punct |
| 77 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 80 destroyed | cc |
| 78 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 79 block | det |
| 79 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 80 destroyed | nsubj |
| 80 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crawl | advcl |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crawl | punct |
| 82 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 crawl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl | infinitive · do-support | thou | the ash | long property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath ash=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | spread | past | this news of me | the Spider and the hero bold obl; abroad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exist | present | thou not said here | the world | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 4 | send | present · perfect · passive | witnesses = witness | Kazan | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chop off | present · perfect | witnesses = witness | Kazan's head | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 6 | destroy | past | Kazan | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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