Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 133

Canoe, canoe, float a little farther, Canoe, canoe, float a little farther; That is not my mother, but a witch who calls me.

Who acts: Canoe, That, witch · What happens: float, not be, call · To what, where: Canoe, mother, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Canoe, That, witch), 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	Canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 canoe	punct
3	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Canoe	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 float	punct
5	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farther	obl
8	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 float	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Canoe	punct
10	Canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 canoe	punct
12	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Canoe	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 float	punct
14	float	float	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 float	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 little	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 farther	obl
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 float	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 mother	punct
19	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 mother	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 mother	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 mother	advmod
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 float	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 witch	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 witch	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 witch	det
27	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mother	appos
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 calls	nsubj
29	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 witch	acl:relcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 calls	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 float	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	float	infinitive	Canoe and canoe	Canoe and canoe		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	infinitive	Canoe and canoe not said here			far property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	present	That	my mother			tree rules
4	call	present	a witch		me		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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