Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 47
Ivan, the youngest of the party, utters the magical formula "Izbushka, Izbushka! stand with back to the forest and front towards us," and "the hut faces towards them, its doors and windows open of their own accord."
Who acts: Ivan, hut, doors · What happens: utter, face, open · To what, where: magical formula, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ivan, hut, doors), 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 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 utters | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 youngest | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youngest | det |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Ivan | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 party | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 party | det |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 youngest | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ivan | punct |
| 9 | utters | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 formula | det |
| 11 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 formula | amod |
| 12 | formula | formula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 utters | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Izbushka | punct |
| 14 | Izbushka | Izbushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 formula | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Izbushka | punct |
| 16 | Izbushka | Izbushka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Izbushka | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 stand | punct |
| 18 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 utters | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 utters | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 forest | det |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 utters | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 front | cc |
| 25 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 forest | conj |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 front | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 us | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 front | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 faces | cc |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 faces | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hut | det |
| 33 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 faces | nsubj |
| 34 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 utters | conj |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 faces | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 open | punct |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 doors | nmod:poss |
| 39 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 open | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 windows | cc |
| 41 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 doors | conj |
| 42 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 faces | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 accord | case |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 accord | nmod:poss |
| 45 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 accord | amod |
| 46 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 open | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 faces | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 faces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | present | Ivan | the magical formula | the forest | with back; stand obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent formula=Topic to forest=Recipient | ||
| 2 | face in a quote | present | the hut | towards Izbushka | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open in a quote | present | hut's doors and windows | of doors's own accord | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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