Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 111
"On the right hand is an open plain, on the left stands a house."
What happens: be, stand · To what, where: open plain, right hand, house, left
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 plain | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hand | amod |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plain | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plain | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plain | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plain | amod |
| 9 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stands | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 left | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 left | det |
| 13 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stands | obl |
| 14 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plain | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stands | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plain | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 plain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a open plain | the right hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | present | a house | the left | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme on left=Destination |
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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