Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 115
The third daughter makes friends with the cat, which licks off the tell-tale blood, so she escapes detection.
Who acts: third daughter, cat · What happens: make, lick off, escape · To what, where: friends, tale blood, detection
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 (third daughter, cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 makes | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 licks | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 licks | nsubj |
| 11 | licks | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 licks | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blood | det |
| 14 | tell | tell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tale | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tell | punct |
| 16 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blood | compound |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 licks | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 escapes | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 escapes | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 escapes | nsubj |
| 21 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 makes | advcl |
| 22 | detection | detection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 escapes | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the third daughter | friends | with the cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | |||
| 2 | lick off | present | the cat | the tale blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | escape | present | cat | detection | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme detection=Initial_Location |
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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