Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 23
Then she sprinkles her lover's corpse with the water, and he revives.
Who acts: spirit, knowledge · What happens: sprinkle, revive · To what, where: corpse
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sprinkles | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sprinkles | nsubj |
| 3 | sprinkles | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lover | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corpse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 lover | case |
| 7 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sprinkles | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corpse | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 revives | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 revives | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 revives | nsubj |
| 14 | revives | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprinkles | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprinkles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | present | spirit | spirit's lover's corpse | then | with the water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent corpse=Destination with water=Theme | ||
| 2 | revive | present | knowledge | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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