Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 90
One day he sees an iron castle beside a wood, surrounded by a palisade of human bones tipped with skulls.
Who acts: evil · What happens: see, surround, tip · To what, where: iron castle, wood, human bones
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 (evil), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sees | nsubj |
| 4 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | compound |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sees | obj |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 surrounded | punct |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 castle | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 palisade | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palisade | det |
| 15 | palisade | palisade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bones | case |
| 17 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bones | amod |
| 18 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 palisade | nmod |
| 19 | tipped | tip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 bones | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 skulls | case |
| 21 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tipped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | evil | a iron castle | a wood | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | surround | participle | a iron castle not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tip | participle | human bones not said here | with skulls | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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