Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 69
He sets out in search of it, and, aided by a magic ring, reaches the lake, "and sees there the blue rose-tree, and around it a blue forest."
Who acts: man, tree · What happens: set out, aid, reach, see, forest, search · To what, where: search, lake, blue rose tree, 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 (man, tree), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sets | nsubj |
| 2 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 sets | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 search | case |
| 5 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sets | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 search | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 aided | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 aided | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 aided | punct |
| 11 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sets | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 ring | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ring | amod |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aided | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reaches | punct |
| 17 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sets | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lake | det |
| 19 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reaches | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lake | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sees | cc |
| 23 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reaches | conj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sees | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tree | amod |
| 27 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tree | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 rose | punct |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sees | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 forest | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 forest | cc |
| 32 | around | around | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 forest | nsubj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 forest | det |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 forest | amod |
| 36 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sets | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 forest | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 forest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | present | man | search of tree | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | aid | participle | man not said here | by a magic ring | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | present | the lake | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present | the blue rose tree | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | forest in a quote | tree | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | search | tree | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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