Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 13
Pleased by her "wise words," Frost throws a warm cloak over her, and afterwards presents her with "robes embroidered with silver and gold, and a chest containing rich dowry."
Who acts: Frost, chest · What happens: please, throw, present, embroider, contain, dowry · To what, where: warm cloak, Frost, robes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Frost, chest), 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 | Pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pleased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throws | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 throws | punct |
| 9 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throws | nsubj |
| 10 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloak | det |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloak | amod |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throws | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 throws | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 presents | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 presents | cc |
| 18 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 presents | advmod |
| 19 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 throws | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 presents | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 robes | case |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 robes | punct |
| 23 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 presents | obl |
| 24 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 robes | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 silver | case |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 embroidered | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gold | cc |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 silver | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dowry | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dowry | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 chest | det |
| 32 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dowry | nsubj |
| 33 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 dowry | amod |
| 34 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 dowry | amod |
| 35 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pleased | parataxis |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 dowry | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 dowry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | participle | by Frost's wise words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | throw | present | Frost | a warm cloak | over stepdaughter | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme over she=Destination | |||
| 3 | present | present | Frost not said here | Frost | with robes; afterwards property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with robe=Theme | |||
| 4 | embroider in a quote | participle | robes not said here | with silver and gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme | ||||
| 5 | contain in a quote | gerund | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 6 | dowry in a quote | a chest | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | word in a quote | Frost | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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