Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 113
Two of the three daughters of a poor widow look into a forbidden chamber, find it "full of dead gentlewomen," get stained knee-deep in blood, and refuse to give a drop of milk to a cat which offers its services.
Who acts: Two, cat, knee · What happens: look, forbid, find, get, stain, refuse · To what, where: forbidden chamber, chamber, drop, cat, services
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: who acts (Two, cat, knee), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 look | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 daughters | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughters | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 daughters | nummod |
| 5 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 widow | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 widow | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 widow | amod |
| 9 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 chamber | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chamber | det |
| 13 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chamber | amod |
| 14 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 find | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gentlewomen | case |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gentlewomen | amod |
| 22 | gentlewomen | gentlewoman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | conj |
| 26 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 get | xcomp |
| 27 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 deep | nsubj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 deep | punct |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stained | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 blood | case |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 deep | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 refuse | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 refuse | cc |
| 34 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 refuse | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 drop | det |
| 38 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 milk | case |
| 40 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drop | nmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 cat | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cat | det |
| 43 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obl |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 offers | nsubj |
| 45 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 cat | acl:relcl |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 services | nmod:poss |
| 47 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 offers | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | Two | a forbidden chamber | of the three daughters; of a poor widow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | forbid | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 3 | find | infinitive | Two not said here | chamber | full property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | get | infinitive | Two not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | stain | participle | Two not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | refuse | infinitive | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | not give | to-infinitive | a drop of milk | a cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drop=Theme to cat=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | offer | present | a cat | knee's services | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme | ||||
| 9 | service | knee | nom service «act 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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