Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 110
Then the Sun's Sister ordered the wind to stop blowing.
Who acts: Sister, wind · What happens: order, stop, blow · To what, where: wind
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, wind), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sun | det |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Sun | case |
| 5 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stop | mark |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | xcomp |
| 11 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stop | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Sun's Sister | the wind | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wind=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wind not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | blow | gerund | the wind not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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