Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 132
Then Marya's turn came, and when she approached the bush the birds picked the berries for her, and filled the bowl in a trice.
Who acts: turn, birds · What happens: come, approach, pick, fill · To what, where: bush, berries, bowl, trice
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 (turn, birds), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | Marya | Marya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Marya | case |
| 4 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 picked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 picked | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 approached | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 approached | nsubj |
| 10 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 picked | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bush | det |
| 12 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 approached | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 picked | nsubj |
| 15 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 berries | det |
| 17 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 picked | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 picked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 filled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 filled | cc |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bowl | det |
| 24 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 trice | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 trice | det |
| 27 | trice | trice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Marya's turn | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | turn | the bush | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pick | past | the birds | the berries | for Marya | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent berry=Theme for she=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | fill | past | Marya's turn not said here | the bowl | a trice | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bowl=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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