Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 22
In a Transylvanian-Saxon story[128] a Witch's "life" is a light which burns in an egg, inside a duck, which swims on a pond, inside a mountain, and she dies when it is put out.
Who acts: life, light, duck, _ · What happens: be, burn, swim, die, put out · To what, where: light, egg, pond, life
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 (life, light, 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 | _ | 6 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 3 | Transylvanian | Transylvanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Saxon | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Transylvanian | punct |
| 5 | Saxon | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | compound |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 128 | punct |
| 8 | 128 | 128 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 story | appos |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 128 | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Witch | det |
| 11 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 light | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Witch | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 life | punct |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 light | nsubj |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 life | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 light | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 burns | nsubj |
| 20 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 light | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 egg | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 egg | det |
| 23 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burns | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 duck | punct |
| 25 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 27 duck | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 duck | det |
| 27 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burns | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 swims | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 swims | nsubj |
| 30 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 duck | acl:relcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 pond | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 pond | det |
| 33 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swims | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 mountain | punct |
| 35 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 37 mountain | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 mountain | det |
| 37 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swims | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dies | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dies | cc |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 dies | nsubj |
| 41 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 burns | conj |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 put | advmod |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 put | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 put | aux:pass |
| 45 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 dies | advcl |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 put | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | life | a Witch's light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burn | present | a Witch's light | a egg | inside a duck | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egg=Location | |||
| 3 | swim | present | a duck | a pond | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pond=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | die | present | _ | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | put out | present · passive | life | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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