Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 19
A spirit appears and tells her to sprinkle it with water from a neighboring well.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: appear, tell, sprinkle, neighbor · To what, where: spirit, body · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spirit), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spirit | det |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appears | nsubj |
| 3 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tells | cc |
| 5 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appears | conj |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tells | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sprinkle | mark |
| 8 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tells | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sprinkle | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprinkle | obl |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 neighboring | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 neighboring | det |
| 14 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sprinkle | advcl |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 neighboring | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | a spirit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a spirit not said here | spirit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sprinkle not said to happen | to-infinitive | a spirit not said here | body | with water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with water=Theme | |||
| 4 | neighbor | gerund | a spirit not said here | well property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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