Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 125

Now this was the mother of those small birds which the Prince had covered up.

Who acts: this · What happens: be, cover up · To what, where: mother, small birds

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mother	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mother	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mother	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 birds	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 birds	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mother	nmod
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 covered	nsubj:pass
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 covered	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	aux
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 birds	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 covered	compound:prt
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	the mother			now	of that small birds	tree rules
2	cover up	past · perfect · passive		that small birds					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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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