Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 49
There isn't a spark of fire in the house, and our tasks are not yet done.
Who acts: spark, fire, our · What happens: not be, not do, spark, task · To what, where: tasks, house
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 (spark, fire, our), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spark | det |
| 5 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spark | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spark | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 done | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 done | cc |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tasks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 done | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 done | advmod |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 done | advmod |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a spark of fire in the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not do | present · passive | our tasks | yet | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | spark | fire | the house | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=agent in=place | |||||
| 4 | task | our | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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