Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 9
_b_), the stepdaughter is left by her father "in the open plain."
Who acts: father · What happens: leave · To what, where: stepdaughter, open plain
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 (father), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 2 | b | b | PROPN | Typo=Yes | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stepdaughter | det |
| 7 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 b | flat |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 father | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 plain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plain | det |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plain | amod |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 b | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | b's father | the stepdaughter | the open plain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in plain=Location |
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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