Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 77
"Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, Your house is a-fire, your children at home."
Who acts: Lady bird, house · What happens: fly away, be · To what, where: fire
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 (Lady bird, house), 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 | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lady | punct |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bird | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bird | punct |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 fly | advmod |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 fly | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fire | punct |
| 14 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fire | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fire | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 a | punct |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 children | punct |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 children | nmod:poss |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fire | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 children | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fly | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away in a quote | infinitive | Lady bird and lady bird | away, home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Your house | a fire and your children at home | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/77/