Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 29

As in the Russian story the mouse jumps about on the strings of a lute in order to deceive the witch, so in the Greek it plays a fiddle.

Who acts: mouse · What happens: jump about, deceive, play · To what, where: strings, witch, fiddle, Greek

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 (mouse), 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 story	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 story	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumps	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumps	nsubj
8	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 jumps	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 strings	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 strings	det
12	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jumps	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lute	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lute	det
15	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strings	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 order	case
17	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumps	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 deceive	mark
19	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 jumps	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deceive	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plays	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	28 plays	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 Greek	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Greek	det
26	Greek	Greek	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 plays	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 plays	nsubj
28	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 jumps	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fiddle	det
30	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plays	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump about	present	the mouse		the strings of a lute	as the Russian story; in order; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on string=Trajectory
2	deceive	to-infinitive	the mouse not said here	the witch			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient
3	play	present	mouse	a fiddle	the Greek		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=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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