Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 78
It seems "that on the other side of the ocean stands an oak, and on the oak a coffer, and in the coffer a hare, and in the hare a duck, and in the duck an egg, and in the egg the love of the Queen-Maiden."
Who acts: It · What happens: seem, stand, love · To what, where: that, other side, Queen Maiden
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 (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stands | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ocean | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ocean | det |
| 11 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oak | det |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 coffer | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 coffer | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 oak | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 oak | det |
| 19 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 coffer | compound |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 coffer | det |
| 21 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hare | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hare | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 coffer | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coffer | det |
| 26 | coffer | coffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hare | compound |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hare | det |
| 28 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 duck | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 duck | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hare | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hare | det |
| 33 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 duck | compound |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 duck | det |
| 35 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 egg | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 egg | cc |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 duck | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 duck | det |
| 40 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 egg | compound |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 egg | det |
| 42 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 egg | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 egg | cc |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 egg | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 egg | det |
| 47 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 love | det |
| 49 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 egg | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Maiden | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Maiden | det |
| 52 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Maiden | compound |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 Maiden | punct |
| 54 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 love | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 egg | punct |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 egg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | that | the other side of the ocean | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme oak=Destination | ||||
| 3 | love in a quote | the Queen Maiden | nom love «feeling 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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