Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 44
But, before setting off, Satou states that he shall take his heart and place it "in the flowers of the acacia-tree," so that, if the tree is cut down, his heart will fall to the ground and he will die.
Who acts: Satou, place, heart · What happens: set off, state, take, heart, cut down, fall · To what, where: flowers, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Satou, place, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 states | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 setting | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 setting | mark |
| 4 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 states | advcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 setting | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 states | punct |
| 7 | Satou | Satou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 states | nsubj |
| 8 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 states | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 place | cc |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nsubj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 24 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tree | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 acacia | punct |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flowers | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 flowers | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 flowers | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 that | case |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 take | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 cut | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 cut | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tree | det |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 cut | aux:pass |
| 36 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 take | advcl |
| 37 | down | down | ADP | _ | 36 cut | compound:prt |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fall | punct |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heart | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fall | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 fall | aux |
| 42 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 cut | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 ground | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 ground | det |
| 45 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fall | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 die | cc |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 die | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 die | aux |
| 49 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 fall | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 states | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | gerund | Satou not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | Satou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | shall | Satou | the flowers of the acacia tree | so that | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in flower=Location | |||
| 4 | heart | place | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | cut down a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | the tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 6 | fall | future | Satou's heart | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 7 | die | future | Satou | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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