Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 67
Twice again the puppets sing their song, and at the end of its third performance, the earth closes over the head of the rescued bride.
Who acts: puppets, earth, brother, puppet · What happens: sing, close, rescue, perform · To what, where: song, end
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 (puppets, earth, brother, puppet), 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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 puppets | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 puppets | det |
| 4 | puppets | puppet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 song | nmod:poss |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 closes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 closes | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 closes | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 performance | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 performance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 performance | amod |
| 16 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 end | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 closes | nsubj |
| 20 | closes | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sing | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 closes | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 bride | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bride | det |
| 26 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bride | amod |
| 27 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the puppets | brother's song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | present | the earth | at the end of puppet's third performance | over the head of the rescued bride | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | rescue | participle | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | sing | brother | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | perform | puppet | nom performance «communication 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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