Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 39
Into that park there used to come a huge beast--Norka was its name--and do fearful mischief, devouring some of the animals every night.
Who acts: Norka, name · What happens: use, come, be, do, devour · To what, where: park, huge beast, name, fearful mischief, some
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 (Norka, name), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 park | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 park | det |
| 3 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 name | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 used | advmod |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 park | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beast | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beast | amod |
| 10 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 park | punct |
| 12 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 name | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 name | cop |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 name | acl:relcl |
| 19 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mischief | amod |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 devouring | punct |
| 22 | devouring | devour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 do | advcl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 devouring | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 animals | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 animals | det |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 some | nmod |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 devouring | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | that park not said here | there | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | a huge beast | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Norka | park's name | that park | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | infinitive | park's name not said here | fearful mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | devour | gerund | park's name not said here | some | night | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
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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