Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 102
Flow past towns, and bathe villages without number as far as the blue sea.
Who acts: you · What happens: flow, bathe · To what, where: past towns, villages
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 towns | amod |
| 3 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Flow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bathe | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bathe | cc |
| 6 | bathe | bathe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Flow | conj |
| 7 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bathe | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 number | case |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bathe | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 far | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 bathe | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 far | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Flow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | imperative | you not said here | past towns | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location town=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bathe | infinitive | you not said here | villages | without number; far property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme village=Destination |
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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