Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 14
The poor brother one day sees a flock of sheep, and near them a fair maiden spinning a golden thread.
Who acts: poor brother, fair maiden · What happens: see, spin · To what, where: flock, golden thread
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor brother, fair maiden), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | nsubj |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flock | det |
| 8 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sheep | case |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flock | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 maiden | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 maiden | cc |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 maiden | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maiden | amod |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | obl |
| 18 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 maiden | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thread | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thread | amod |
| 21 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spinning | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the poor brother | a flock of sheep | a fair maiden near sheep obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | spin | gerund | a fair maiden near sheep not said here | a golden thread | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
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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