Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 54
Thus in the "Moujik and Anastasia Adovna,"[152] it is no longer a king of the waters, but a devil's imp,[153] who bargains with the thirsting father for his child, and the swan-maiden whose shift the devoted youth steals bears the name of Adovna, the daughter of Ad or Hades.
Who acts: Moujik Adovna, shift · What happens: be, bargain, thirst, steal, name · To what, where: king, bears, Adovna
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 (Moujik Adovna, shift), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 Adovna | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Adovna | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Adovna | det |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Moujik | punct |
| 5 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Adovna | compound |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Anastasia | cc |
| 7 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Moujik | conj |
| 8 | Adovna | Adovna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Adovna | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Adovna | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 152 | punct |
| 12 | 152 | 152 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 Adovna | list |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 152 | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 king | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 king | cop |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 longer | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 king | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 waters | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 waters | det |
| 22 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 king | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 imp | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 imp | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 devil | det |
| 26 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 imp | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 devil | case |
| 28 | imp | imp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 king | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 153 | punct |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 153 | punct |
| 31 | 153 | 153 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 imp | nmod |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 153 | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 bargains | nsubj |
| 34 | bargains | bargain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 153 | parataxis |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 father | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 father | det |
| 37 | thirsting | thirst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 father | amod |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bargains | obl |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 child | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 child | nmod:poss |
| 41 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 father | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 maiden | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 maiden | cc |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 maiden | det |
| 45 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 maiden | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 swan | punct |
| 47 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 king | conj |
| 48 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 49 shift | nmod:poss |
| 49 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 steals | nsubj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 youth | det |
| 51 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 youth | amod |
| 52 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 steals | nsubj |
| 53 | steals | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 maiden | conj |
| 54 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 steals | obj |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 name | det |
| 56 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 steals | obj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 Adovna | case |
| 58 | Adovna | Adovna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 name | nmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 daughter | punct |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 daughter | det |
| 61 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 Adovna | appos |
| 62 | of | of | ADP | _ | 63 Ad | case |
| 63 | Ad | Ad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 daughter | nmod |
| 64 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 65 Hades | cc |
| 65 | Hades | Hade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 63 Ad | conj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Moujik Adovna | a king but a devil's imp 153 | of the waters; long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bargain | present | with the thirsting father for father's child | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | thirst | gerund | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | be | the Moujik Adovna not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | steal | present | shift | bears | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bear=Beneficiary name=Theme | ||||
| 6 | name | Adovna | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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