Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 158
Thus in Little-Russia she assures untimely spinners that it is not flax they are spinning, but her hair, and in proof of this she shows them her dishevelled _kosa_, or long back plait.
Who acts: St., Spirit, spinners · What happens: assure, not be, spin, show, dishevell, proof · To what, where: untimely spinners, flax, spinners, proof, kosa, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (St., Spirit, spinners), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 assures | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Little | case |
| 3 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Thus | obl |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Russia | punct |
| 5 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Little | conj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 assures | nsubj |
| 7 | assures | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | untimely | untimely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spinners | amod |
| 9 | spinners | spinner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 assures | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 flax | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flax | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 flax | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 flax | advmod |
| 14 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spinners | nmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spinning | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 spinning | aux |
| 17 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 flax | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hair | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 hair | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hair | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assures | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shows | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 shows | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 proof | case |
| 25 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shows | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 this | case |
| 27 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 proof | nmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shows | nsubj |
| 29 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 assures | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 shows | obj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 dishevelled | nmod:poss |
| 32 | dishevelled | dishevell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 shows | ccomp |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 34 kosa | punct |
| 34 | kosa | kosa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dishevelled | obj |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 dishevelled | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 plait | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 plait | cc |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 plait | amod |
| 39 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 plait | compound |
| 40 | plait | plait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dishevelled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 assures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | present | St. | untimely spinners | St.'s hair obl; thus property | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spinner=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | Spirit | flax | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | spin | present · progressive | spinners = spinner | flax not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flax=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | present | St. | spinners = spinner | proof of this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | dishevell | past | kosa | long back plait obl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | proof | this | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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