Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 165
"In the pitcher which stands on the stove."
Who acts: pitcher · What happens: stand · To what, where: stove
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pitcher), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitcher | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 pitcher | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pitcher | det |
| 4 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 stands | nsubj |
| 6 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pitcher | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stove | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stove | det |
| 9 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stands | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitcher | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pitcher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | present | the pitcher | the stove | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stove=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/165/