Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 72
Why, just see what a lot of things belong to him, the firs, the pine-tops, and the birches, all in their robes of down--ways and means that any one might envy; and he himself a _bogatir_!"
Who acts: you, lot, birches, one · What happens: see, belong, mean, envy, bogatir · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, lot, birches, one), 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 | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 belong | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lot | nmod |
| 10 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 belong | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 firs | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 firs | det |
| 15 | firs | fir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 what | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tops | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tops | det |
| 18 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tops | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 pine | punct |
| 20 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 firs | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 means | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 means | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 birches | det |
| 24 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 means | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 robes | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 robes | det |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 robes | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 robes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 birches | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 down | case |
| 31 | down | down | ADV | _ | 29 robes | nmod |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 ways | punct |
| 33 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 robes | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 means | cc |
| 35 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 envy | mark |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 one | det |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 envy | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 envy | aux |
| 40 | envy | envy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 means | ccomp |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 bogatir | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 bogatir | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 bogatir | nsubj |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 43 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 bogatir | det |
| 46 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 bogatir | punct |
| 47 | bogatir | bogatir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 48 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 bogatir | punct |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | belong | present | a lot of things | hand | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | the birches in birches's robes and ways | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | envy | might | any one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | bogatir | lot | 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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