Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 50
The eagle summons the Idol, and demands the snuff box.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: summon, demand · To what, where: Idol, snuff box
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summons | nsubj |
| 3 | summons | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Idol | det |
| 5 | Idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summons | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 demands | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 demands | cc |
| 8 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 summons | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 10 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 box | compound |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 demands | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | present | the eagle | the Idol | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idol=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | the eagle not said here | the snuff box | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme box=Precondition |
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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