Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 203
[218] Vertodub, the Tree-extractor (_vertyet'_ = to twirl, _dub_ = tree or oak) is the German _Baumdreher_ or _Holzkrummacher_; _Vertogor_ the Mountain leveller (_gora_ = mountain) answers to the _Steinzerreiber_ or _Felsenkripperer_.
Who acts: Vertodub, 218 · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: German Baumdreher
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 (Vertodub, 218), 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 | _ | 2 218 | punct |
| 2 | 218 | 218 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 51 answers | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 218 | punct |
| 4 | Vertodub | Vertodub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Baumdreher | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 extractor | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 extractor | det |
| 7 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 extractor | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tree | punct |
| 9 | extractor | extractor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Vertodub | appos |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 vertyet | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 vertyet | punct |
| 12 | vertyet | vertyet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 extractor | appos |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 vertyet | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | SYM | _ | 17 twirl | punct |
| 15 | = | = | SYM | _ | 17 twirl | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 twirl | mark |
| 17 | twirl | twirl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vertyet | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dub | punct |
| 19 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dub | amod |
| 20 | dub | dub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 twirl | appos |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 dub | punct |
| 22 | = | = | SYM | _ | 23 tree | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 twirl | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 oak | cc |
| 25 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | conj |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 vertyet | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 Baumdreher | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Baumdreher | det |
| 29 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Baumdreher | amod |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 German | punct |
| 31 | Baumdreher | Baumdreher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 218 | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 31 Baumdreher | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 Holzkrummacher | cc |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 Holzkrummacher | punct |
| 35 | Holzkrummacher | Holzkrummacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 218 | conj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 218 | punct |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 218 | punct |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Vertogor | punct |
| 39 | Vertogor | Vertogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 answers | nsubj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 39 Vertogor | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 leveller | det |
| 42 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 leveller | compound |
| 43 | leveller | leveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 answers | nsubj |
| 44 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 gora | punct |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 46 gora | punct |
| 46 | gora | gora | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 leveller | appos |
| 47 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 46 gora | punct |
| 48 | = | = | SYM | _ | 49 mountain | punct |
| 49 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gora | conj |
| 50 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 gora | punct |
| 51 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 Steinzerreiber | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Steinzerreiber | det |
| 54 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 55 Steinzerreiber | punct |
| 55 | Steinzerreiber | Steinzerreiber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 answers | obl |
| 56 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 55 Steinzerreiber | punct |
| 57 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 59 Felsenkripperer | cc |
| 58 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 59 Felsenkripperer | punct |
| 59 | Felsenkripperer | Felsenkripperer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Steinzerreiber | conj |
| 60 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 59 Felsenkripperer | punct |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Vertodub | the German Baumdreher | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | 218 or Holzkrummacher | to the Steinzerreiber or Felsenkripperer | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to steinzerreiber=Co-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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