Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 132
Ivashko perceived that the voice was not his mother's, but was that of a witch, and he sang:
Who acts: Ivashko, voice · What happens: perceive, not be, be, sing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivashko, voice), 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 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 perceived | nsubj |
| 2 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 mother | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mother | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 mother | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 mother | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perceived | obj |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 witch | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 witch | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 witch | cop |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 witch | mark |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 witch | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 perceived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sang | nsubj |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 perceived | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Ivashko | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | the voice | 's voice's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | of a witch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | Ivashko | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/31/132/