Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 93
In the story of "Usuinya,"[96] for instance, there appears to be no relationship between these fair maidens and the "Usuinya-Bird," which steals the golden apples from a monarch's garden and is killed by his youngest son Ivan.
Who acts: relationship, youngest son · What happens: appear, be, steal, kill · To what, where: relationship, golden apples, garden
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 (relationship, youngest son), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 96 | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Usuinya | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Usuinya | punct |
| 6 | Usuinya | Usuinya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 96 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 96 | punct |
| 10 | 96 | 96 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 96 | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 instance | case |
| 13 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 96 | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appears | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 appears | expl |
| 16 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 96 | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 relationship | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 relationship | cop |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 relationship | det |
| 20 | relationship | relationship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appears | xcomp |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 maidens | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 maidens | det |
| 23 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 maidens | amod |
| 24 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 relationship | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Bird | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Bird | det |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Usuinya | punct |
| 28 | Usuinya | Usuinya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Bird | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Usuinya | punct |
| 30 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 relationship | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 steals | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 steals | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 steals | nsubj |
| 34 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 relationship | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 apples | det |
| 36 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 apples | amod |
| 37 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 steals | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 garden | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 monarch | det |
| 40 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 garden | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 monarch | case |
| 42 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 steals | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 killed | cc |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 killed | aux:pass |
| 45 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 steals | conj |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 son | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 son | nmod:poss |
| 48 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 49 son | amod |
| 49 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 killed | obl |
| 50 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 son | appos |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 96 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | no relationship and the Usuinya Bird | between this fair maidens | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | steal | present | no relationship and the Usuinya Bird | the golden apples | a monarch's garden | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from garden=Source | |||
| 4 | kill | present · passive | Bird's youngest son | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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