Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 92
The Eagle shook off the King right in the middle of the sea; the King sank up to his girdle.
Who acts: Eagle, King · What happens: shake off, sink up · To what, where: King, middle
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 (Eagle, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obl |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 middle | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shook | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 middle | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sank | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sank | nsubj |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 sank | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 girdle | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sank | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake off | past | the Eagle | the King | the middle of the sea | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent king=Theme in middle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sink up | past | the King | to King's girdle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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