Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 18
Ivan, in a sparrow's form, overhears all this, and acts as in the preceding story.
Who acts: Ivan, sparrow · What happens: overhear, act, precede, form · To what, where: this
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 (Ivan, sparrow), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 overhears | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 form | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 form | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sparrow | det |
| 5 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 sparrow | case |
| 7 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ivan | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivan | punct |
| 9 | overhears | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 this | det:predet |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 overhears | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 acts | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 acts | cc |
| 14 | acts | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 overhears | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 story | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 18 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 story | amod |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acts | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overhears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | present | Ivan | this | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | act | present | Ivan not said here | as the preceding story | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as story=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | form | a sparrow | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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