Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 141
[189] _Luchina_, a deal splinter used instead of a candle.
What happens: use · To what, where: deal splinter
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 189 | punct |
| 2 | 189 | 189 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 189 | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Luchina | punct |
| 5 | Luchina | Luchina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 189 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Luchina | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 splinter | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 splinter | det |
| 9 | deal | deal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 splinter | amod |
| 10 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Luchina | appos |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 splinter | acl |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 candle | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 candle | det |
| 15 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 189 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a deal splinter not said here | instead a candle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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