Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 88
And the Raven gave ear to what Ivan said, and flew to his brothers and began to croak above their heads.
Who acts: Raven, Ivan · What happens: give, say, fly, begin, croak · To what, where: ear, heads · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Raven, Ivan), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Raven | det |
| 3 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 gave | obl |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flew | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 croak | mark |
| 19 | croak | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 heads | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heads | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 croak | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Raven | ear | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to what=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | to IVAN's brothers result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to brother=Result | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | croak | to-infinitive | brothers's heads | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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