Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 38
The twins fall to the ground, and are carried by the King-Bear to his home amid inaccessible mountains.
Who acts: twins, King Bear · What happens: fall, carry · To what, where: inaccessible mountains, home amid
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twins, King Bear), 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 twins | det |
| 2 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fall | parataxis |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Bear | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Bear | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Bear | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 King | punct |
| 15 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 amid | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 amid | nmod:poss |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 amid | compound |
| 19 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 20 | inaccessible | inaccessible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 mountains | amod |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carried | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | the twins | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | present · passive | the King Bear | inaccessible mountains | Bear's home amid | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme to amid=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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