Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 103
It a certain god sold to them, in the shape of a sow which devoured a peck of needles a day.
Who acts: sow · What happens: sell, devour · To what, where: certain god, god, peck
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sow), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 god | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 god | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 god | amod |
| 4 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 god | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 shape | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 shape | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shape | det |
| 11 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 god | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sow | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sow | det |
| 14 | sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shape | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 devoured | nsubj |
| 16 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sow | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 peck | det |
| 18 | peck | peck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 devoured | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 needles | case |
| 20 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 peck | nmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 needles | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 god | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | participle | a certain god and the shape of a sow not said here | god | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | devour | past | a sow | a peck of needles a day | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peck=Patient |
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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