Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 8
His mother retains his heart, but ties up the rest of him in a bundle, and sets it on Tatoschik's back.
Who acts: mother · What happens: retain, tie up, set · To what, where: heart, rest, bundle, back
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 (mother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retains | nsubj |
| 3 | retains | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retains | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ties | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ties | cc |
| 8 | ties | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 retains | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 ties | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ties | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rest | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bundle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bundle | det |
| 16 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ties | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sets | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sets | cc |
| 19 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 retains | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sets | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 22 | Tatoschik | Tatoschik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Tatoschik | case |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sets | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | present | horse's mother | horse's heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tie up | present | horse's mother not said here | the rest of horse | a bundle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient | |||
| 3 | set | present | horse's mother not said here | rest | Tatoschik's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=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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