Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 12
Then he confesses that his "death" really lies in an egg, inside a duck, inside a log which is floating on the sea.
Who acts: hare, death, log · What happens: confess, lie, float, die · To what, where: egg, sea
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, death, log), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 confesses | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 confesses | nsubj |
| 3 | confesses | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lies | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 death | punct |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | nsubj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 death | punct |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 10 lies | advmod |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 confesses | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 egg | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 duck | punct |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 17 duck | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 duck | det |
| 17 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confesses | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 log | punct |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 21 log | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 log | det |
| 21 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 duck | conj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 floating | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 floating | aux |
| 24 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 log | acl:relcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floating | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confesses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | present | hare | then | inside a duck and a log | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | lie | present | hare's death | a egg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in egg=Location | ||||
| 3 | float | present · progressive | a log | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | die in a quote | hare | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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