Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 46
A Servian song represents a beautiful maiden, with "arms of silver up to the elbows," sitting on a silver throne which floats on water.
Who acts: Servian song, elbows, silver throne · What happens: represent, sit, float · To what, where: beautiful maiden, silver throne, water
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 (Servian song, elbows, silver throne), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 2 | Servian | servian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 song | amod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represents | nsubj |
| 4 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 maiden | amod |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 represents | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 arms | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 arms | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 arms | punct |
| 11 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 maiden | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silver | case |
| 13 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arms | nmod |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 elbows | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 elbows | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 elbows | det |
| 17 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 arms | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 elbows | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 throne | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 throne | det |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 throne | compound |
| 24 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 floats | nsubj |
| 26 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 throne | acl:relcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 floats | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | a Servian song | a beautiful maiden | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the elbows not said here | a silver throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 3 | float | present | a silver throne | water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory |
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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