Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 78
The third says, "Split open, O Earth! disappear, O sister!"
Who acts: third · What happens: say, split, disappear · 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 (third), 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 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Split | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Split | punct |
| 6 | Split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Split | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Earth | punct |
| 9 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 10 Earth | discourse |
| 10 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Earth | punct |
| 12 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sister | punct |
| 14 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 sister | discourse |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 sister | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | the third | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | split in a quote | participle | open property | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | disappear in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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