Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 6
Polish housewives, for instance, think it imprudent to allow their hens to sit on an uneven number of eggs.
Who acts: Polish housewives, hens · What happens: think, allow, sit · To what, where: hens, uneven number
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Polish housewives, hens), 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 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 housewives | amod |
| 2 | housewives | housewife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 think | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 instance | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 instance | case |
| 5 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 housewives | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 housewives | punct |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 imprudent | nsubj |
| 9 | imprudent | imprudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 think | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 allow | mark |
| 11 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 imprudent | xcomp |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hens | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 allow | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sit | mark |
| 15 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allow | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 number | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 number | det |
| 18 | uneven | uneven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 number | amod |
| 19 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sit | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eggs | case |
| 21 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 number | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | infinitive | Polish housewives and instance | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | allow | to-infinitive | Polish housewives and instance not said here | housewives's hens | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer hen=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | housewives's hens not said here | a uneven number of eggs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on number=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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