Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 85
From fir to fir was he leaping, and snapping his fingers.
Who acts: pigeon · What happens: leap, snap · To what, where: fir, fingers
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 (pigeon), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 fir | case |
| 2 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaping | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 fir | case |
| 4 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fir | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaping | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leaping | nsubj |
| 7 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 snapping | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 snapping | cc |
| 10 | snapping | snap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 leaping | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 snapping | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past · progressive | pigeon | fir to fir | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from fir=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | snap | gerund | pigeon not said here | pigeon's fingers | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme |
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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