Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 8
It smashes the windows, but the sleepers slumber on and take no heed.
Who acts: foe, sleepers · What happens: smash, slumber on, take · To what, where: windows, heed
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 (foe, sleepers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 smashes | nsubj |
| 2 | smashes | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 windows | det |
| 4 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smashes | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slumber | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 slumber | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sleepers | det |
| 8 | sleepers | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slumber | nsubj |
| 9 | slumber | slumber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 smashes | parataxis |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 slumber | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 slumber | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 heed | det |
| 14 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smashes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | present | foe | the windows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slumber on | present | the sleepers | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | the sleepers not said here | no heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=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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