Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 34
Her brother climbs a tree, the stem of which she gnaws almost asunder.
Who acts: brother, Princess · What happens: climb, gnaw · To what, where: tree, asunder
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 (brother, Princess), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbs | nsubj |
| 3 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbs | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stem | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stem | det |
| 8 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gnaws | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gnaws | nsubj |
| 12 | gnaws | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stem | acl:relcl |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 asunder | advmod |
| 14 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gnaws | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | Princess's brother | a tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gnaw | present | Princess | asunder | of the stem | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=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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