Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 96
And presently it arrives--its wings stretching afar, while along the ground trail its moustaches [_usui_, whence its name].
Who acts: monster, wings · What happens: arrive, stretch, trail, name · To what, where: usui, moustaches, ground
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 (monster, wings), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 arrives | cc |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 arrives | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrives | nsubj |
| 4 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretching | punct |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stretching | nsubj |
| 8 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arrives | advcl |
| 9 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stretching | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trail | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 trail | mark |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trail | obl |
| 15 | trail | trail | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 stretching | parataxis |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 moustaches | nmod:poss |
| 17 | moustaches | moustache | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 trail | obj |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 trail | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretching | punct |
| 20 | usui | usui | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 stretching | obj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 stretching | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 whence | punct |
| 23 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 arrives | conj |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 whence | nsubj |
| 26 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 25 name | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | monster | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stretch | gerund | monster's wings | usui | afar property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent usui=Patient | |||
| 3 | trail | infinitive | monster's moustaches | the ground | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent moustache=Theme along ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | name | monster | nom name «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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