Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 23
In the Bohemian story of "The Sun-horse"[129] a Warlock's "strength" lies in an egg, which is within a duck, which is within a stag, which is under a tree.
Who acts: strength, egg, duck, stag · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: Bohemian story, tree
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 (strength, egg, duck, stag), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Bohemian | Bohemian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | compound |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lies | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sun | punct |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 horse | punct |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 129 | punct |
| 13 | 129 | 129 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 horse | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 129 | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Warlock | det |
| 16 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 strength | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Warlock | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 strength | punct |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lies | nsubj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 strength | punct |
| 21 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 egg | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 egg | det |
| 24 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lies | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 duck | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 duck | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 duck | cop |
| 28 | within | within | ADP | _ | 30 duck | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 duck | det |
| 30 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 egg | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 stag | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 stag | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 stag | cop |
| 34 | within | within | ADP | _ | 36 stag | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 stag | det |
| 36 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 duck | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 tree | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 tree | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 tree | cop |
| 40 | under | under | ADP | _ | 42 tree | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 tree | det |
| 42 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stag | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a Warlock's strength | the Bohemian story of the Sun horse | in a egg and a duck and a stag and a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in story=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | a egg and a duck and a stag and a tree | within a duck and a stag and a tree | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a duck and a stag and a tree | within a stag and a tree | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a stag and a tree | a tree | tree rules |
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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