Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 48
Sometimes Moroz-Treskun, the Crackling Frost, is spoken of without disguise as the preserver of the hero who is ordered to enter a bath which has been heated red-hot.
Who acts: hero · What happens: speak, order, enter, heat · To what, where: Moroz, hero, bath · 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 (hero), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 spoken | advmod |
| 2 | Moroz | Moroz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Treskun | punct |
| 4 | Treskun | Treskun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Moroz | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Frost | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Frost | det |
| 7 | Crackling | Crackling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Frost | compound |
| 8 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Moroz | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moroz | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoken | aux:pass |
| 11 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 disguise | case |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 disguise | case |
| 14 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoken | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 preserver | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 preserver | det |
| 17 | preserver | preserver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoken | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hero | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hero | det |
| 20 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 preserver | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ordered | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ordered | aux:pass |
| 23 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hero | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 enter | mark |
| 25 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ordered | xcomp |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bath | det |
| 27 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 enter | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 heated | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 heated | aux:pass |
| 31 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bath | acl:relcl |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hot | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 red | punct |
| 34 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heated | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · passive | Moroz and the Crackling Frost | of disguise; as the preserver of the hero; sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | present · passive | the hero | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | the hero not said here | a bath | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bath=Destination | ||||
| 4 | heat | present · perfect · passive | a bath | hot property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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