Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 112
"We will fly thither," said the Eagle; "my youngest sister lives there."
Who acts: We, Eagle, youngest sister · What happens: fly, say, live · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (We, Eagle, youngest sister), 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 | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fly | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Eagle | det |
| 10 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 sister | amod |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lives | nsubj |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lives | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | future | We | thither property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | my youngest sister | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/112/