Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 26
From the graves of the lovers spring two willows, which mingle their boughs as if in an embrace.
Who acts: two willows · What happens: spring, mingle · To what, where: two willows, graves, boughs
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 (two willows), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 graves | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 graves | det |
| 3 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spring | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lovers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lovers | det |
| 6 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 graves | nmod |
| 7 | spring | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 willows | nummod |
| 9 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mingle | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 mingle | nsubj |
| 12 | mingle | mingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 willows | acl:relcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 boughs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mingle | obj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 embrace | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 embrace | mark |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 embrace | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 embrace | det |
| 19 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mingle | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | present | two willows | the graves of the lovers | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location willow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mingle | present | two willows | willows's boughs | as a embrace | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bough=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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