Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 82
[310] In a similar story from the Ukraine, mention is made of two springs of healing and life-giving water, which are guarded by iron-beaked ravens, and the way to which lies between grinding hills.
Who acts: beaked ravens, way · What happens: make, give, guard, beak, lie, grind · To what, where: mention, giving water, hills
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 (beaked ravens, way), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 310 | punct |
| 2 | 310 | 310 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 310 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 310 | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Ukraine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ukraine | det |
| 10 | Ukraine | Ukraine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 310 | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 springs | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 springs | nummod |
| 17 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 healing | case |
| 19 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 springs | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 giving | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 life | punct |
| 23 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 water | amod |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 healing | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 guarded | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 guarded | aux:pass |
| 28 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 water | acl:relcl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 ravens | case |
| 30 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beaked | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 iron | punct |
| 32 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ravens | amod |
| 33 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 guarded | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 way | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 way | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 lies | nsubj |
| 40 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 way | acl:relcl |
| 41 | between | between | ADP | _ | 42 grinding | mark |
| 42 | grinding | grind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 lies | advcl |
| 43 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 grinding | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 310 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | mention | spring | the way obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | guard | present · passive | beaked ravens | giving water | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | beak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | lie | present | the way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | grind | gerund | the way not said here | hills | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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