Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 64
Compare Bleek's "Reynard the Fox in South Africa," No. 24, in which a lion squeezes itself into the skin of a girl it has killed.
Who acts: you, lion, girl · What happens: compare, squeeze, kill · To what, where: Reynard Fox, South Africa, lion, skin
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 (you, lion, girl), 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 | Compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Bleek | Bleek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Bleek | case |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Reynard | punct |
| 5 | Reynard | Reynard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | compound |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fox | det |
| 7 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compare | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Africa | case |
| 9 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Africa | compound |
| 10 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fox | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 No. | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 No. | punct |
| 13 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 7 Fox | conj |
| 14 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 No. | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 squeezes | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 squeezes | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lion | det |
| 19 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 squeezes | nsubj |
| 20 | squeezes | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Compare | parataxis |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 squeezes | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 skin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 squeezes | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 girl | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | nmod |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 killed | aux |
| 30 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 girl | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | imperative | you not said here | Bleek's Reynard Fox and No. | South Africa | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient | |||
| 2 | squeeze | present | a lion | lion | the skin of a girl | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent itself=Material into skin=Product | |||
| 3 | kill | present · perfect · passive | a girl not said here | lion | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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