Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 83
In a Polish version[202] the sister obtains a magic car, which sinks underground with her, while the spot on which she has spat replies to every summons which is addressed to her.
Who acts: sister, magic car · What happens: obtain, sink, have, address · To what, where: magic car, Polish version, spat replies, spot, summons, sister
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 (sister, magic car), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 version | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 version | det |
| 3 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 version | amod |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtains | obl |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 6 202 | punct |
| 6 | 202 | 202 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 version | appos |
| 7 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 6 202 | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtains | nsubj |
| 10 | obtains | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 car | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 car | compound |
| 13 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obtains | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sinks | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sinks | nsubj |
| 16 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 car | acl:relcl |
| 17 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 16 sinks | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sinks | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spot | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 spot | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spot | det |
| 23 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sinks | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 has | obl |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 spot | acl:relcl |
| 28 | spat | spat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 replies | compound |
| 29 | replies | reply | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 summons | case |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 summons | det |
| 32 | summons | summons | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 replies | nmod |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 addressed | aux:pass |
| 35 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 summons | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 addressed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 obtains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | present | the sister | a magic car | a Polish version | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | |||
| 2 | sink | present | a magic car | with sister; underground property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with she=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | have | present | sister | spat replies | the spot | to every summons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Patient | ||
| 4 | address | present · passive | every summons | sister | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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