Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 113
She cannot make the bones burn, nor the sieve hold water, but when the sparrow offers its advice she only boxes its ears.
Who acts: present, bones, sieve, sparrow, advice · What happens: not make, burn, hold, offer, box · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present, bones, sieve, sparrow), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bones | det |
| 6 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burn | nsubj |
| 7 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hold | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 hold | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sieve | det |
| 11 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | nsubj |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 burn | conj |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hold | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offers | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 offers | cc |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 offers | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sparrow | det |
| 18 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 offers | nsubj |
| 19 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 advice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 boxes | nsubj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 boxes | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 boxes | advmod |
| 24 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 offers | parataxis |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 ears | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 boxes | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | can | present | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | burn | present | the bones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hold | present | the sieve | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | present | the sparrow | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | box | sieve's advice | 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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