Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 74
"The first time I will wave my handkerchief, the second I will be arranging my dress, the third time you will see a fly above my head."
Who acts: Vasilissa, second, you · What happens: wave, arrange, see · To what, where: handkerchief, dress, fly, head
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 (Vasilissa, second, you), 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 | _ | 7 wave | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wave | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wave | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wave | aux |
| 7 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 handkerchief | nmod:poss |
| 9 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arranging | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 second | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 arranging | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 arranging | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 arranging | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 arranging | aux |
| 16 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wave | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arranging | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wave | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fly | det |
| 27 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obj |
| 28 | above | above | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fly | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wave | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave in a quote | future | Vasilissa | my handkerchief | time | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient | |||
| 2 | arrange in a quote | future · progressive | the second | my dress | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Product | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | you | a fly | my head | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus |
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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