Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 66
The earth opens, and the girl slowly sinks into it.
Who acts: earth, girl · What happens: open, sink · To what, where: puppet
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 (earth, girl), 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 earth | det |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opens | nsubj |
| 3 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sinks | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sinks | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sinks | nsubj |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 9 sinks | advmod |
| 9 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 opens | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sinks | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | the earth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sink | present | the girl | puppet | slowly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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