Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 110
Sister Anne is represented, and so are the rescuing brothers, the latter in the person of the heroine's old friend and playmate, Toennis the goose-herd.
What happens: represent, rescue, be · To what, where: Sister Anne, rescuing brothers
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Anne | compound |
| 2 | Anne | Anne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 represented | aux:pass |
| 4 | represented | represent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brothers | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brothers | cc |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 brothers | advmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brothers | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 10 | rescuing | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 brothers | amod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 represented | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 latter | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 latter | det |
| 14 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brothers | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 person | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 latter | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 friend | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heroine | det |
| 20 | heroine | heroine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 heroine | case |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friend | amod |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 person | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 playmate | cc |
| 25 | playmate | playmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 friend | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Toennis | punct |
| 27 | Toennis | Toennis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 represented | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 herd | det |
| 29 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 herd | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 goose | punct |
| 31 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Toennis | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present · passive | Sister Anne | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rescue | gerund | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | the rescuing brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | in the person of the heroine's old friend and playmate | 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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