Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 28
The master's daughter will be borne along by the bridal train, but the bones of the mistress's daughter are being carried in a bag," and continues to bark in the same strain until the yard-gates open.
What happens: bear, carry, continue, bark · To what, where: daughter, bones, bag, same strain
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 master | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 borne | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 borne | aux:pass |
| 7 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 borne | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 train | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 train | det |
| 11 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 train | amod |
| 12 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 carried | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mistress | det |
| 19 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 mistress | case |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bones | nmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 carried | aux:pass |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 carried | aux:pass |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 borne | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bag | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bag | det |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 continues | cc |
| 31 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 borne | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 bark | mark |
| 33 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 continues | xcomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 strain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 strain | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 strain | amod |
| 37 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bark | obl |
| 38 | until | until | ADP | _ | 42 gates | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gates | det |
| 40 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gates | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 yard | punct |
| 42 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bark | obl |
| 43 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bark | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | future · passive | the master's daughter | by the bridal train; along property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present · passive | the bones of the mistress's daughter | a bag | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in bag=Location | ||||
| 3 | continue in a quote | present | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | bark in a quote | to-infinitive | the same strain | until the yard gates | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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