Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 15
"I will become an apple-tree with golden and silver apples," says the first; "whoever plucks an apple will immediately burst."
Who acts: I, whoever, apple · What happens: become, say, pluck, burst · To what, where: apple tree, first · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, whoever, apple), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 become | aux |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 says | ccomp |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 become | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 apples | case |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 apples | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 silver | cc |
| 12 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 golden | conj |
| 13 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tree | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 first | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 says | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 plucks | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 plucks | punct |
| 21 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 plucks | nsubj |
| 22 | plucks | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 apple | det |
| 24 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burst | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 burst | aux |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 burst | advmod |
| 27 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 plucks | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 burst | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become in a quote | future | I | a apple tree with golden apples | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the first | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pluck in a quote | present | whoever | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | burst in a quote | future | a apple | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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