Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 28
But while she is sharpening her teeth with a view towards eating him, a mouse gives him a warning which saves his life.
Who acts: Princess, mouse, warning · What happens: sharpen, eat, give, save · To what, where: teeth, brother, warning, life
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 (Princess, mouse, warning), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gives | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 sharpening | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sharpening | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sharpening | aux |
| 5 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gives | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sharpening | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 view | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 view | det |
| 10 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sharpening | obl |
| 11 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 12 eating | mark |
| 12 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sharpening | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eating | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sharpening | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | nsubj |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gives | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 warning | det |
| 20 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 saves | nsubj |
| 22 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 warning | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saves | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpen | present · progressive | Princess | Princess's teeth | with a view | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient with view=Instrument | |||
| 2 | eat | gerund | Princess not said here | brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | present | a mouse | a warning | brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient warning=Theme | |||
| 4 | save | present | a warning | brother's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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