Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 133
When both of Katoma's feet had been cut off, the Princess glanced around, and saw that a tall tree-stump stood on one side; so she called her servants and ordered them to set him on that stump.
Who acts: Princess, tall tree stump, stump · What happens: cut off, glance around, see, stand, call, order · To what, where: feet, one side, servants, princesses, Katoma, stump · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, tall tree stump, stump), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 cut | mark |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 Katoma | det |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Katoma | case |
| 4 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Katoma | case |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cut | aux:pass |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 glanced | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 glanced | nsubj |
| 14 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 14 glanced | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glanced | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 stood | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stump | det |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stump | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stump | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 tree | punct |
| 24 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | nsubj |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 side | nummod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 called | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 called | nsubj |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glanced | parataxis |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 servants | nmod:poss |
| 34 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 called | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ordered | cc |
| 36 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 called | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ordered | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 set | mark |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 ordered | xcomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 stump | case |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 stump | det |
| 43 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 set | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | both Katoma's feet | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | glance around | past | the Princess | around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | a tall tree stump | one side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 5 | call | past | stump | stump's servants | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | order | past | stump not said here | princesses = princess | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | stump not said here | Katoma | that stump | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on stump=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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