Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 33
A brush, also, is frequently introduced, from each bristle of which springs up a wood.
Who acts: bristle · What happens: introduce, spring up · To what, where: brush, bristle, wood
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 (bristle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 brush | det |
| 2 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brush | punct |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 brush | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brush | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 introduced | aux:pass |
| 7 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 8 introduced | advmod |
| 8 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bristle | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 bristle | case |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 bristle | det |
| 12 | bristle | bristle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 introduced | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 springs | nsubj |
| 15 | springs | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 bristle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 springs | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 springs | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 introduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | present · passive | a brush | each bristle | frequently property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | spring up | present | each bristle | a wood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=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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