Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 83
The Fox and the Hare are sent in quest of the magic fluid.
Who acts: magic fluid · What happens: send, quest · To what, where: Fox, quest
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 (magic fluid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Hare | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hare | det |
| 5 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 quest | case |
| 9 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fluid | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fluid | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fluid | amod |
| 13 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quest | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · passive | the Fox and the Hare | quest of the magic fluid | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in quest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | quest | the magic fluid | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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