Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 112
For the meadow, the silken cushions, the apple-tree, and the spring, were all of them daughters of the Snake.
Who acts: all · What happens: be · To what, where: daughters
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 meadow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meadow | det |
| 3 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughters | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cushions | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cushions | det |
| 6 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cushions | amod |
| 7 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meadow | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 apple | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cushions | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spring | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spring | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 spring | det |
| 16 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meadow | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meadow | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 daughters | cop |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 daughters | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 all | nmod |
| 22 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Snake | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Snake | det |
| 25 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughters | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 daughters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all | daughters | for the meadow and the silken cushions the apple tree and the spring; of the Snake | 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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