Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 148
Vasilissa's pie was set on the table, but no sooner was it cut in two than out of it flew the two doves.
What happens: set, cut, fly · To what, where: pie, table, two, two doves
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. 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 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pie | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Vasilissa | case |
| 3 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 table | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 table | det |
| 8 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cut | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 cut | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 sooner | det |
| 12 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 cut | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | aux:pass |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 set | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 two | case |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 cut | obl |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 flew | mark |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 flew | mark |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 flew | obl |
| 22 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cut | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 doves | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 doves | nummod |
| 25 | doves | dove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 flew | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Vasilissa's pie | the table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on table=Destination | ||||
| 2 | cut | past · passive | pie | two | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the two doves | of pie | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dove=Theme of it=Initial_Location |
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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