Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 60
On one occasion the ghost, to prove her identity, gave suck to her surviving infant.
Who acts: ghost · What happens: prove, give, survive · To what, where: identity, one occasion, suck
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 (ghost), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasion | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 occasion | nummod |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prove | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ghost | det |
| 5 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prove | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 prove | mark |
| 8 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 identity | nmod:poss |
| 10 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prove | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prove | conj |
| 13 | suck | suck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 14 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 16 surviving | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 surviving | nmod:poss |
| 16 | surviving | survive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 gave | advcl |
| 17 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 surviving | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | to-infinitive | the ghost | ghost's identity | one occasion | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | the ghost not said here | suck | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | survive | gerund | the ghost not said here | infant property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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