Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 54
Plant me by to-morrow a garden green--a big and shady one; and there must be birds singing in the garden, and flowers blossoming on the trees, and ripe apples and pears hanging from the boughs."
Who acts: you, birds, flowers, ripe apples · What happens: plant, be, sing, blossom, hang · To what, where: me, birds, garden, trees, boughs
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: who acts (you, birds, flowers, ripe apples), 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 | Plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Plant | obj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plant | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 green | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 green | compound |
| 9 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morrow | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shady | cc |
| 14 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 big | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 green | appos |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 birds | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 be | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 be | expl |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 birds | cop |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Plant | parataxis |
| 22 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 birds | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 garden | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 singing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flowers | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 flowers | cc |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 birds | conj |
| 29 | blossoming | blossom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 flowers | acl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 trees | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 trees | det |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 blossoming | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 apples | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 apples | cc |
| 35 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 apples | amod |
| 36 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 birds | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pears | cc |
| 38 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 apples | conj |
| 39 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 apples | acl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 boughs | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 boughs | det |
| 42 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hanging | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plant | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | imperative | you not said here | me | by morrow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme by morrow=Destination | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | birds and flowers and ripe apples and pears | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | birds and flowers and ripe apples and pears not said here | the garden | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 4 | blossom | gerund | flowers not said here | the trees | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | hang | gerund | ripe apples and pears not said here | the boughs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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