Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 51
Thus one of the Skazkas[305] speaks of a wondrous garden, in which are two springs of healing and vivifying water, and around that garden is coiled like a ring a mighty serpent.
Who acts: one, wondrous garden · What happens: speak, be, vivify, coil · To what, where: two springs, mighty serpent, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, wondrous garden), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 speaks | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Skazkas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Skazkas | det |
| 5 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 speaks | nsubj |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 305 | punct |
| 7 | 305 | 305 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Skazkas | list |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 305 | punct |
| 9 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 12 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 garden | amod |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 speaks | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 springs | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 springs | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 springs | cop |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 springs | nummod |
| 19 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 garden | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 healing | case |
| 21 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 springs | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 23 | vivifying | vivify | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 healing | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 coiled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 coiled | cc |
| 27 | around | around | ADP | _ | 29 garden | case |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 garden | det |
| 29 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 coiled | obl |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 coiled | aux:pass |
| 31 | coiled | coil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 speaks | conj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 ring | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 ring | det |
| 34 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 coiled | obl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 serpent | det |
| 36 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 serpent | amod |
| 37 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 coiled | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 speaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | one | of a wondrous garden | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a wondrous garden | two springs | of healing and vivifying water | tree rules | |||
| 3 | vivify | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | coil | present · passive | one not said here | a mighty serpent | that garden | like a ring | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: serpent=Theme around garden=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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