Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 33
After two fruitless journeys, the Bee succeeds in bringing back honey "from the cellar of the Creator."
Who acts: Bee · What happens: succeed, bring back · To what, where: honey, cellar
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 (Bee), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 journeys | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 journeys | nummod |
| 3 | fruitless | fruitless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 journeys | amod |
| 4 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 succeeds | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 journeys | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bee | det |
| 7 | Bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 succeeds | nsubj |
| 8 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 bringing | mark |
| 10 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 succeeds | advcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 honey | advmod |
| 12 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bringing | obj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 honey | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 cellar | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cellar | det |
| 16 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bringing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Creator | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Creator | det |
| 19 | Creator | creator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cellar | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 succeeds | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 succeeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | present | the Bee | after two fruitless journeys | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring back | gerund | the Bee not said here | honey | the cellar of the Creator | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent honey=Theme from cellar=Initial_Location |
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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