Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 82
Her house is fenced about with the bones of the men whose flesh she has devoured; in one story she offers a human arm, by way of a meal, to a girl who visits her.
Who acts: Skazkas, girl · What happens: fence, devour, offer, visit · To what, where: house, flesh, human arm, one story, Skazkas
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 (Skazkas, girl), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fenced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fenced | aux:pass |
| 4 | fenced | fence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 fenced | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 bones | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bones | det |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fenced | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bones | nmod |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 devoured | aux |
| 16 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 men | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 offers | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 story | nummod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offers | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 offers | nsubj |
| 22 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fenced | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 arm | det |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 arm | amod |
| 25 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offers | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 way | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offers | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 meal | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 meal | det |
| 31 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 way | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 girl | punct |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 girl | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offers | parataxis |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 visits | nsubj |
| 37 | visits | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 girl | acl:relcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 visits | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fence | present · passive | Skazkas's house | with the bones of the men; about property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with bone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | devour | present · perfect · passive | flesh | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | offer | present | Skazkas | a human arm | one story | by way of a meal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||
| 4 | visit | present | a girl | Skazkas | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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