Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 80
He borrowed cattle from everywhere round about, and he fed the Eagle for the space of a whole year, and afterwards he set it at liberty.
Who acts: King · What happens: borrow, feed, set · To what, where: cattle, Eagle, space, liberty
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 (King), 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 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 borrowed | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 everywhere | case |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 borrowed | obl |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 about | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 everywhere | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fed | nsubj |
| 11 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 borrowed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Eagle | det |
| 13 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fed | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 space | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 space | det |
| 16 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 19 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 year | amod |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 space | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 23 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 25 set | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 borrowed | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 liberty | case |
| 28 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 borrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | King | cattle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme from everywhere=Source | ||||
| 2 | feed | past | King | the Eagle | for the space of a whole year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient | |||
| 3 | set | past | King | space | liberty | afterwards property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at liberty=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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