Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 114
His youngest son keeps watch and discovers that the thief is a white wolf.
Who acts: youngest son, thief · What happens: keep, discover, be · To what, where: watch, white wolf
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest son, thief), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 discovers | cc |
| 7 | discovers | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeps | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 wolf | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thief | det |
| 10 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wolf | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wolf | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wolf | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wolf | amod |
| 14 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovers | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | horse's youngest son | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | present | horse's youngest son not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the thief | a white wolf | tree rules |
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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