Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 27
And the neighbors set up near the spot three statues, his and hers and her nurse's.
Who acts: neighbors · What happens: set up · To what, where: three statues, spot
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 (neighbors), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 set | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 neighbors | det |
| 3 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 spot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spot | det |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 statues | nummod |
| 10 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hers | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hers | cc |
| 14 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 statues | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 nurse | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hers | conj |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 nurse | case |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | present | the neighbors | three statues spirit | the spot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent statue=Theme near spot=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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