Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 106
"It is possible to sow wheat, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to grind it to flour, to make five pies of it, to eat those pies, and then to start in pursuit--and even then to be in time."
Who acts: It, ceiling · What happens: be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · To what, where: wheat, ceiling, five pies, pies, pursuit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, ceiling), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sow | mark |
| 6 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 possible | csubj |
| 7 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wait | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wait | mark |
| 10 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sow | conj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 grows | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grows | nsubj |
| 13 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wait | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 grows | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reap | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reap | mark |
| 17 | reap | reap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wait | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reap | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thresh | cc |
| 20 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reap | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 thresh | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grind | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 grind | mark |
| 24 | grind | grind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reap | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grind | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 flour | mark |
| 27 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grind | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 make | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 make | mark |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reap | conj |
| 31 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 pies | nummod |
| 32 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 make | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 pies | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 eat | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 eat | mark |
| 37 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 make | parataxis |
| 38 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 pies | det |
| 39 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 eat | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 start | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 start | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 start | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 start | mark |
| 44 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 eat | conj |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 pursuit | case |
| 46 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 start | obl |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 time | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 time | cc |
| 49 | even | even | ADV | _ | 50 then | advmod |
| 50 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 54 time | advmod |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 time | mark |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 54 time | cop |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 time | case |
| 54 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 possible | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sow in a quote | to-infinitive | wheat | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grow up in a quote | present | ceiling | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reap in a quote | to-infinitive | ceiling | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | thresh in a quote | infinitive | ceiling | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | grind in a quote | to-infinitive | ceiling | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 8 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | five pies of ceiling | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pie=Product | |||||
| 9 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | that pies | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Patient | |||||
| 10 | start in a quote | to-infinitive | pursuit | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 11 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | in time; then | 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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