Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 41
No. 6, in which Norka is replaced by a witch who breaks the windows of a church, and is wounded, in falcon-shape, by the youngest brother--Hahn, No. 70, in which a Drakos, as a cloud, steals golden apples, a story closely resembling the Russian skazka.
Who acts: witch, Drakos, story · What happens: replace, break, be, steal, resemble · To what, where: Norka, No., windows, golden apples, Russian skazka
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Drakos, story), 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 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 No. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 replaced | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 replaced | obl |
| 6 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replaced | aux:pass |
| 8 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 No. | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 witch | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 breaks | nsubj |
| 13 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 witch | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 windows | det |
| 15 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 breaks | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 church | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 windows | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wounded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wounded | cc |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wounded | cop |
| 22 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 breaks | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shape | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 shape | case |
| 25 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shape | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 falcon | punct |
| 27 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wounded | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 brother | punct |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 brother | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 brother | det |
| 31 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 brother | amod |
| 32 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 breaks | parataxis |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 Hahn | punct |
| 34 | Hahn | Hahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 brother | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 70 | punct |
| 36 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 37 70 | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 Hahn | appos |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 steals | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 which | case |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 steals | obl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 Drakos | det |
| 42 | Drakos | Drakos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 steals | nsubj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cloud | punct |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 cloud | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 cloud | det |
| 46 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Drakos | appos |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Drakos | punct |
| 48 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 breaks | conj |
| 49 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 apples | amod |
| 50 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 steals | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 story | punct |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 story | det |
| 53 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 apples | conj |
| 54 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 55 resembling | advmod |
| 55 | resembling | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 53 story | acl |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 skazka | det |
| 57 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 skazka | amod |
| 58 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 resembling | obj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 No. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | replace | present · passive | a witch | Norka | No. | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | break | present | a witch | the windows of a church | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | wounded property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | steal | present | a Drakos | golden apples and a story | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location apple=Theme | ||||
| 5 | resemble | gerund | a story not said here | the Russian skazka | closely property | tree rules |
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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