Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 35
The towel is used, also, for the purpose of constructing or annihilating a bridge.
Who acts: purpose · What happens: use, construct, annihilate · To what, where: towel, bridge
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 (purpose), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 towel | det |
| 2 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 also | punct |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 used | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 purpose | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 purpose | det |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 constructing | mark |
| 12 | constructing | construct | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 purpose | acl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 annihilating | cc |
| 14 | annihilating | annihilate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 constructing | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bridge | det |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 annihilating | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | the towel | for the purpose | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for purpose=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | construct | gerund | the purpose not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | annihilate | gerund | the purpose not said here | a bridge | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient |
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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