Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 24
Then his father said, "I dreamed that swans and geese had brought our Ivashko home on their wings."
Who acts: father · What happens: say, dream, bring · To what, where: that, swans, wings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreamed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreamed | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 dreamed | nsubj |
| 8 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 dreamed | obj |
| 10 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 geese | cc |
| 12 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swans | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dreamed | ccomp |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 home | compound |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 wings | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 brought | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | flock's father | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dream in a quote | past | flock's father = father | that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | past · perfect · passive | swans and geese | swans's wings | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination home=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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