Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 21
He descends and hands up to her a cup of water.
Who acts: knowledge · What happens: descend, hand up · To what, where: cup, spirit
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 (knowledge), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 descends | nsubj |
| 2 | descends | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hands | cc |
| 4 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 descends | conj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hands | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hands | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cup | det |
| 9 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hands | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cup | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 descends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | present | knowledge | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hand up | present | knowledge not said here | a cup of water | spirit | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to she=Destination |
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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