Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 124
"It is possible to sow barley, to wait till it grows up, to reap it and thresh it, to brew beer, to drink ourselves drunk on it, to sleep our fill, and then to set off in pursuit--and yet to be in time."
Who acts: It, thunder · What happens: be, sow, wait, grow up, reap, thresh · To what, where: barley, thunder, beer, ourselves, fill, 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, thunder), 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 | barley | barley | 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 brew | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 brew | mark |
| 24 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reap | conj |
| 25 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brew | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drink | punct |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 drink | mark |
| 28 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 brew | conj |
| 29 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 drink | obj |
| 30 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 drink | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 drunk | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sleep | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 sleep | mark |
| 35 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 drink | conj |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fill | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sleep | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 set | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 set | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 set | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 set | mark |
| 42 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 set | compound:prt |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 pursuit | case |
| 45 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 set | obl |
| 46 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 time | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 time | cc |
| 48 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 52 time | advmod |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 time | mark |
| 50 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 time | cop |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 time | case |
| 52 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 set | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
| 54 | " | " | 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 | barley | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent barley=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | grow up in a quote | present | thunder | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reap in a quote | to-infinitive | thunder | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | thresh in a quote | infinitive | thunder | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | brew in a quote | to-infinitive | beer | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product | |||||
| 8 | drink in a quote | to-infinitive | ourselves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient | |||||
| 9 | drink in a quote | participle | thunder | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | our fill | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Theme | |||||
| 11 | set off in a quote | to-infinitive | pursuit | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 12 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | in time; yet | 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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