Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 34
In one story, however, the brush gives rise to mountains, and a _golik_, or bath-room whisk, turns into a forest.
Who acts: brush, golik · What happens: give, turn · To what, where: rise, mountains, one story, forest
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 (brush, golik), 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 | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 story | nummod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 gives | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brush | det |
| 8 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turns | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turns | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 golik | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 golik | punct |
| 17 | golik | golik | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turns | nsubj |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 golik | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 whisk | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 whisk | cc |
| 21 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 bath | punct |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whisk | compound |
| 24 | whisk | whisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 golik | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 golik | punct |
| 26 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gives | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turns | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the brush | rise | mountains | one story | however property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to mountain=Recipient | |
| 2 | turn | present | a golik or room whisk | a forest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into forest=Trajectory |
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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