Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 89
One day the youngest child was sent to drive the sparrows away from her grandfather's pease.
What happens: send, drive · To what, where: youngest child, sparrows
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drive | mark |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparrows | det |
| 11 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drive | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 drive | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 pease | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pease | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 grandfather | case |
| 17 | pease | pease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 away | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the youngest child | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | to-infinitive | the sparrows | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme sparrow=Trajectory |
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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