Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 110
The _liulka_, or Russian cradle, is suspended and swung, instead of being placed on the floor and rocked.
What happens: suspend, swing, place, rock · To what, where: Russian cradle, floor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 liulka | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 liulka | punct |
| 3 | liulka | liulka | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 suspended | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cradle | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 cradle | cc |
| 7 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cradle | amod |
| 8 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cradle | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 suspended | aux:pass |
| 11 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 liulka | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swung | cc |
| 13 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 suspended | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 placed | mark |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 instead | fixed |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 placed | aux:pass |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 suspended | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 floor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 floor | det |
| 21 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 rocked | cc |
| 23 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 placed | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 liulka | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | present · passive | Russian cradle | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swing | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | place | gerund · passive | the floor | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on floor=Destination | |||||
| 4 | rock | past | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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