Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 49
At the eagle's command, the crayfish search for it, and bring back word that it is lying "on the knees of an Idol."
Who acts: you, eagle · What happens: bring back, lie, command · To what, where: word, command, knees · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, eagle), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 command | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 command | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 eagle | case |
| 5 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 search | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 search | det |
| 8 | crayfish | crayfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 search | compound |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 command | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 search | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bring | cc |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 bring | advmod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lying | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lying | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lying | aux |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 word | acl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lying | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 knees | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 knees | det |
| 24 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lying | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Idol | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Idol | det |
| 27 | Idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 knees | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | imperative | you not said here | word | the eagle's command and the crayfish search for eagle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | present · progressive | eagle | word not said here | the knees of a Idol | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | |||
| 3 | command | the eagle | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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