Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 167
Then she ran to a forge, and when she reached it she cried, "Smith, smith! make me some iron teeth; if you don't I'll eat you!"
Who acts: Witch · What happens: run, reach, cry, make, eat · To what, where: forge, Smith, iron teeth, Witch, you · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 forge | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 forge | det |
| 6 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Smith | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Smith | punct |
| 17 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 smith | punct |
| 19 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Smith | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 Smith | punct |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 teeth | det |
| 24 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 teeth | compound |
| 25 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 do | nsubj |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 do | advmod |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 eat | nsubj |
| 32 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | aux |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 eat | obj |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Witch | then | to a forge | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Witch | forge | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Witch | Smith and smith | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | some iron teeth | Witch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tooth=Product | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | present · do-support | Witch | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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