Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 4
The oak that the witch had gnawed through fell down to the ground; but then she saw that Ivashko was sitting up in another tree, so she gnashed her teeth with spite and set to work afresh, to gnaw that tree also.
Who acts: oak, witch, Ivashko · What happens: gnaw, fall down, see, sit up, gnash, set · To what, where: witch, tree, teeth
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 (oak, witch, Ivashko), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oak | det |
| 2 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 gnawed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 witch | det |
| 5 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gnawed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gnawed | aux |
| 7 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 oak | acl |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gnawed | obl |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 saw | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sitting | mark |
| 20 | Ivashko | Ivashko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sitting | aux |
| 22 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 sitting | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sitting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gnashed | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 gnashed | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gnashed | nsubj |
| 30 | gnashed | gnash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | parataxis |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gnashed | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 spite | case |
| 34 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gnashed | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 gnashed | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 work | mark |
| 38 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 set | xcomp |
| 39 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 work | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 gnaw | punct |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 gnaw | mark |
| 42 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 work | conj |
| 43 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 tree | det |
| 44 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gnaw | obj |
| 45 | also | also | ADV | _ | 42 gnaw | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past · perfect · passive | the oak not said here | the witch | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | the oak | to the ground; down property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | witch | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sit up | past · progressive | Ivashko | another tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||||
| 5 | gnash | past | witch | witch's teeth | with spite | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 6 | set | infinitive | witch not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | work | to-infinitive | witch not said here | afresh property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | gnaw | to-infinitive | witch not said here | that tree | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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