Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 126
But the little finger remained in the possession of Prince Vasily, who scraped together the sand and burnt it in the stove."
Who acts: little finger · What happens: remain, scrape together, burnt, possess · To what, where: little finger, possession, sand, stove, Prince
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little finger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 scraped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 finger | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 finger | amod |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scraped | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 finger | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 possession | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 possession | det |
| 8 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 possession | nmod |
| 11 | Vasily | vasily | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scraped | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 scraped | nsubj |
| 14 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 scraped | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sand | det |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scraped | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 burnt | cc |
| 19 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 scraped | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 burnt | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 stove | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stove | det |
| 23 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burnt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 scraped | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 scraped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the little finger not said here | the possession of Prince | vasily property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in possession=Location | |||
| 2 | scrape together | past | the little finger | the sand | together property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | |||
| 3 | burnt | past | the little finger not said here | sand | the stove | tree rules | |||
| 4 | possess | Prince | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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