Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 118
In a third (No. 45) the fortieth room contains a golden horse and a golden dog which assist their bold releaser.
Who acts: third, golden dog · What happens: contain, assist · To what, where: golden horse, bold releaser
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, golden dog), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 third | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 No. | punct |
| 5 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 3 third | appos |
| 6 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 No. | flat |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 No. | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 9 | fortieth | fortieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | nsubj |
| 11 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 horse | amod |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 contains | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dog | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horse | conj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 assist | nsubj |
| 20 | assist | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dog | acl:relcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 releaser | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 releaser | amod |
| 23 | releaser | releaser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assist | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 contains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | a third | a golden horse and a golden dog | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assist | present | a golden dog | fairies's bold releaser | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent releaser=Beneficiary |
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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