Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 38
She dies, but is restored to life by one of her lovers, who happens one day to see a dead child resuscitated, and learns how to perform similar miracles.
Who acts: girl, lovers · What happens: die, restore, happen, see, resuscitate, learn · To what, where: life, dead child, similar miracles
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 (girl, lovers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dies | nsubj |
| 2 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 restored | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 restored | cc |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 restored | aux:pass |
| 6 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dies | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 restored | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 restored | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lovers | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happens | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 happens | nsubj |
| 16 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lovers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happens | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happens | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 child | det |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 child | amod |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | resuscitated | resuscitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 child | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 learns | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 learns | cc |
| 27 | learns | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dies | conj |
| 28 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 perform | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 perform | mark |
| 30 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 learns | xcomp |
| 31 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 miracles | amod |
| 32 | miracles | miracle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 perform | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | girl | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | restore | present · passive | girl not said here | life | by one of girl's lovers | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to life=Recipient | |||
| 3 | happen | present | girl's lovers | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | girl's lovers not said here | a dead child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | resuscitate | participle | a dead child not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | learn | present | girl not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | perform | to-infinitive | girl not said here | similar miracles | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miracle=Theme |
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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