Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 77
"Why there; something is shining in yon corner!"
Who acts: something · What happens: shine · To what, where: yon corner
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 (something), 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 | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 there | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 shining | punct |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 shining | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shining | aux |
| 7 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 there | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 corner | case |
| 9 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 corner | compound |
| 10 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shining | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine in a quote | present · progressive | something | yon corner | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=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.
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