Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 78
Sometimes she is seen lying stretched out from one corner to the other of a miserable hut, through the ceiling of which passes her long iron nose; the hut is supported "by fowl's legs," and stands at the edge of a forest towards which its entrance looks.
Who acts: ceiling, entrance · What happens: see, stretch out, pass, support, stand, look · To what, where: name, one corner, long iron nose, hut, edge
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 (ceiling, entrance), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 seen | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stretched | advcl |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stretched | aux:pass |
| 6 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 stretched | compound:prt |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 corner | nummod |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 corner | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 16 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 other | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ceiling | punct |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 ceiling | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ceiling | det |
| 21 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stretched | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 passes | nsubj |
| 24 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ceiling | acl:relcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 nose | nmod:poss |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 nose | amod |
| 27 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nose | compound |
| 28 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passes | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 supported | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hut | det |
| 31 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 supported | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 supported | aux:pass |
| 33 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stretched | conj |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 legs | punct |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 legs | case |
| 36 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 legs | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 fowl | case |
| 38 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 supported | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 legs | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 legs | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 stands | cc |
| 42 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 supported | conj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 edge | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 edge | det |
| 45 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stands | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 forest | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 forest | det |
| 48 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 edge | nmod |
| 49 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 50 which | case |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 looks | obl |
| 51 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 52 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 looks | nsubj |
| 53 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 forest | acl:relcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | name | sometimes property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | gerund · passive | one corner to the other | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: from corner=Location | |||||
| 3 | pass | present | the ceiling | name's long iron nose | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | support | present · passive | the hut | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stand | present | the edge of a forest | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location | |||||
| 6 | look | present | hut's entrance | towards a forest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards which=Theme |
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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