Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 19
In a Norse story[126] a Giant's heart lies in an egg, inside a duck, which swims in a well, in a church, on an island.
Who acts: Giant heart, duck · What happens: lie, swim · To what, where: Norse story, well
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 (Giant heart, duck), 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 | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 126 | punct |
| 6 | 126 | 126 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 story | appos |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 126 | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 9 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heart | amod |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Giant | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | nsubj |
| 12 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 egg | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 duck | punct |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 duck | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 duck | det |
| 19 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lies | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swims | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 swims | nsubj |
| 22 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 duck | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 well | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swims | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 church | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 church | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 church | det |
| 29 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swims | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 island | punct |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 island | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 island | det |
| 33 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 church | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a Giant heart | a Norse story | in a egg; inside a duck | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in story=Location | |||
| 2 | swim | present | a duck | a well | in a church and a island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in well=Trajectory |
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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