Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 56
Next day Anepou finds it under the acacia, and places it in a vase which contains some mystic fluid.
Who acts: Anepou, vase · What happens: find, contain · To what, where: sphere, acacia, mystic fluid
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 (Anepou, vase), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Anepou | Anepou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finds | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 acacia | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 acacia | det |
| 8 | acacia | acacia | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vase | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 vase | cc |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 vase | nsubj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 vase | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vase | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vase | det |
| 15 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 contains | nsubj |
| 17 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 vase | acl:relcl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 fluid | det |
| 19 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fluid | amod |
| 20 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contains | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Anepou | sphere | the acacia | day | in a vase | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |
| 2 | contain | present | a vase | some mystic fluid | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fluid=Theme |
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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