Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 157
[68] In another story bearing the same title (v. 39) the spider lies on its back awaiting its prey.
Who acts: story, same title, spider, back · What happens: bear, v., lie, await · To what, where: same title, 39, back, prey
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: who acts (story, same title, spider, back), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 68 | punct |
| 2 | 68 | 68 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 68 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 68 | nmod |
| 7 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 story | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 title | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 title | amod |
| 10 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bearing | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 v. | punct |
| 12 | v. | v. | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 title | acl |
| 13 | 39 | 39 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 v. | obj |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 v. | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spider | det |
| 16 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 v. | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | obl |
| 21 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 back | acl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 prey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awaiting | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 68 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | gerund | another story not said here | the same title | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient | ||||
| 2 | v. | infinitive | the same title not said here | 39 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | the spider | spider's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 4 | await | gerund | spider's back not said here | spider's prey | tree rules |
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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