Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 17
And the third says, "I will become a golden bed; whoever lies down upon that bed will be consumed with fire."
Who acts: third, whoever · What happens: say, become, lie down, consume · To what, where: golden bed, bed · 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 (third, whoever), 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 says | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 become | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bed | amod |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lies | punct |
| 14 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lies | nsubj |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 lies | advmod |
| 17 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 22 consumed | mark |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 bed | det |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 consumed | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 consumed | aux:pass |
| 22 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lies | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consumed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the third | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become in a quote | future | the third = third | a golden bed | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lie down in a quote | present | whoever | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | consume in a quote | future · passive | that bed | with fire | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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