Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 40
Why here's a brush not in its place, and there's something put wrong, and she's left the muck inside the house!"
Who acts: brush, something · What happens: be, put, leave · To what, where: stepmother, house
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brush, something), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 here | advmod |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 brush | det |
| 5 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 here | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 place | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brush | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 's | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 's | expl |
| 13 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | parataxis |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 's | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 something | acl |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 put | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux:pass |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 here | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 muck | det |
| 23 | muck | muck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a brush in brush's place | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | participle | wrong property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave | present · passive | stepmother | the house | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme muck=Attribute |
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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