Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 86
In a story in Chudinsky's collection, the stepdaughter is sent by night to watch the rye in an _ovin_,[290] or corn-kiln.
What happens: send, watch · To what, where: stepdaughter, story, rye, ovin
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 collection | case |
| 5 | Chudinsky | Chudinsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 collection | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Chudinsky | case |
| 7 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stepdaughter | det |
| 10 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux:pass |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 watch | mark |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rye | det |
| 18 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watch | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ovin | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ovin | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 ovin | punct |
| 22 | ovin | ovin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watch | obl |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 290 | punct |
| 25 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 26 290 | punct |
| 26 | 290 | 290 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 sent | obl |
| 27 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 26 290 | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 kiln | cc |
| 29 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kiln | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 corn | punct |
| 31 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 290 | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · passive | the stepdaughter | a story in Chudinsky's collection | night | 290 or corn kiln obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in story=Destination | ||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | the rye | a ovin | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rye=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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