Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 88
How was the hare to be stopped?
Who acts: hare · What happens: be, stop
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stopped | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stopped | aux:pass |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hare | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hare | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive · passive | the hare not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
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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