Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 39
The word here translated "to scrub," properly means to rub and flog with the soft twig used in the baths for that purpose.
Who acts: word · What happens: translate, scrub, mean, rub, flog, use · To what, where: word, soft twig, baths
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 (word), 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 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 means | nsubj |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 translated | advmod |
| 4 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 word | acl |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 scrub | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 scrub | mark |
| 7 | scrub | scrub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 translated | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 word | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 properly | punct |
| 10 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 11 means | advmod |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 rub | mark |
| 13 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 means | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flog | cc |
| 15 | flog | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rub | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 twig | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 twig | det |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 twig | amod |
| 19 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flog | obl |
| 20 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 twig | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 baths | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 baths | det |
| 23 | baths | bath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 used | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 purpose | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 purpose | det |
| 26 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 used | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | participle | the word not said here | here | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | scrub in a quote | to-infinitive | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | the word | properly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rub not said to happen | to-infinitive | the word not said here | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | flog | infinitive | the word not said here | with the soft twig | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with twig=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | use | participle | the soft twig not said here | the baths | for that purpose | 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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