Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 67
On such and such a spot of my kingdom there stands a lofty iron pillar.
What happens: stand · To what, where: lofty iron pillar, such spot
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spot | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spot | cc |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 spot | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spot | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stands | expl |
| 11 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pillar | det |
| 13 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pillar | amod |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pillar | compound |
| 15 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stands | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a lofty iron pillar | such such spot of my kingdom; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pillar=Theme on spot=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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