Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 44
He hides his children in (or upon) a pillar, hoping to conceal them from a devouring bear, whose fur is of iron.
Who acts: king, fur · What happens: hide, hope, conceal, devour, be · To what, where: children, pillar, devouring bear
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 (king, fur), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hides | nsubj |
| 2 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hides | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pillar | case |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 upon | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 upon | cc |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 in | conj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pillar | det |
| 11 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hides | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoping | punct |
| 13 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hides | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 conceal | mark |
| 15 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hoping | xcomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conceal | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 bear | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 19 | devouring | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 bear | amod |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conceal | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 iron | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 fur | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 iron | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 iron | cop |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 iron | case |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bear | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | king | king's children | a pillar | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Patient in pillar=Location | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | king not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conceal not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | children = child | a devouring bear and iron | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Patient from bear=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | devour | gerund | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | iron's fur | of iron | tree rules |
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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