Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 16
The calabash increased in size, and in proportion to this, the girl grew again inside it."
Who acts: calabash · What happens: increase, grow · To what, where: calabash, size, proportion
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: who acts (calabash), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 calabash | det |
| 2 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 calabash | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 size | case |
| 5 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 increased | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 proportion | case |
| 9 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 proportion | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proportion | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 grew | advmod |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | participle | the calabash not said here | size | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the calabash | proportion to this | again | inside proportion | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in proportion=Location |
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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