Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 148
"Wednesday's children have been burnt at sea!"
What happens: burnt · To what, where: children, sea
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: 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 | _ | 7 burnt | punct |
| 2 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Wednesday | case |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 burnt | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 burnt | aux:pass |
| 7 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burnt | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 burnt | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Wednesday's children | sea | tree rules |
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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