Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 79
All this is said three times, and then the earth opens, and the girl sinks "into that world."
Who acts: earth, girl · What happens: say, open, sink · To what, where: this, world · 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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 said | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opens | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 opens | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 opens | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opens | nsubj |
| 12 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sinks | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sinks | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sinks | nsubj |
| 17 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opens | conj |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sinks | punct |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sinks | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | this | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | open | present | the earth | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sink | present | the girl | that world | 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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