Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 120
"That is the house of my youngest sister--on fire, because she did not receive you, but set greyhounds at you."
Who acts: That, sister · What happens: be, not receive · To what, where: house, you
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 (That, 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 | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 house | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 fire | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fire | case |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sister | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 receive | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 receive | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 receive | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 receive | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 receive | advmod |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 house | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 receive | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 greyhounds | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 greyhounds | cc |
| 22 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 greyhounds | amod |
| 23 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 receive | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 greyhounds | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | the house | of my youngest sister and fire | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not receive in a quote | past · do-support | sister | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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