Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 121
"I am he whose feet you cut off and whom you set on a stump.
Who acts: Princess, feet, you · What happens: be, cut off, set · To what, where: feet, stump
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, feet, you), 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 | _ | 6 feet | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 feet | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nsubj |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cut | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whom | cc |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 cut | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 set | nsubj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 stump | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stump | det |
| 16 | stump | stump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Princess | feet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut off in a quote | present | feet | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | set in a quote | present | you | a stump | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent 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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