Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 152
The hag returned, looked at everything, and cried, "My trusty servants, zealous friends, press forth oil from the poppy seed!"
Who acts: hag · What happens: return, look, cry, press · To what, where: trusty servants, oil, poppy seed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hag), 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 hag | det |
| 2 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 servants | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 servants | punct |
| 13 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 servants | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 servants | amod |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 friends | punct |
| 17 | zealous | zealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friends | amod |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 servants | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 press | punct |
| 20 | press | press | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 press | advmod |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 press | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 seed | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 seed | det |
| 25 | poppy | poppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seed | compound |
| 26 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 press | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 press | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 press | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the hag | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the hag not said here | at everything | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at everything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the hag not said here | My trusty servants and zealous friends | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | press in a quote | infinitive | oil | the poppy seed | forth property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=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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