Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 55
In "The Youth,"[154] a moujik, who has lost his way in a forest makes the rash promise to a man who enables him to cross a great river; "and that man (says the story) was a devil."
Who acts: moujik, man · What happens: lose, make, enable, cross, say, be · To what, where: way, forest, rash promise, Youth, great river, story · 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 (moujik, man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Youth | case |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Youth | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Youth | det |
| 4 | Youth | Youth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Youth | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Youth | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 154 | punct |
| 8 | 154 | 154 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Youth | appos |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 154 | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moujik | det |
| 11 | moujik | moujik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 moujik | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lost | obl |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 promise | det |
| 23 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 promise | compound |
| 24 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 man | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 promise | nmod |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 enables | nsubj |
| 29 | enables | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 man | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 enables | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cross | mark |
| 32 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 enables | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 river | det |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 river | amod |
| 35 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cross | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 devil | cc |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 devil | nsubj |
| 41 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 says | punct |
| 42 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 man | acl:relcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 story | det |
| 44 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 says | obj |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 says | punct |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 devil | cop |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 devil | det |
| 48 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 devil | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 devil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · perfect | a moujik | youth's way | a forest | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | make | present | a moujik | the rash promise | the Youth | to a man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product | ||
| 3 | enable | present | a man | youth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cross | to-infinitive | a man not said here | a great river | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | that man not said here | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | past | that man | a devil | tree rules |
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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