Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 156
Guessing this, Nikita puts on his Cap of Invisibility, bends the bow, and shoots the arrow into the queen's _terema_ [the women's chambers], and in a moment the whole upper story is in a blaze.
Who acts: Nikita, whole upper story · What happens: guess, put, bend, shoot, be · To what, where: this, Cap, bow, arrow, terema, blaze
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 (Nikita, whole upper story), 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 | Guessing | guess | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 puts | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Guessing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Guessing | punct |
| 4 | Nikita | Nikita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | nsubj |
| 5 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Cap | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Cap | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 puts | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Invisibility | case |
| 10 | Invisibility | invisibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Cap | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bends | punct |
| 12 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 puts | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bow | det |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bends | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shoots | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shoots | cc |
| 17 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 puts | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arrow | det |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoots | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 terema | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 queen | det |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 terema | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 queen | case |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 terema | punct |
| 25 | terema | terema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoots | obl |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 shoots | punct |
| 27 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 chambers | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 women | det |
| 29 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 chambers | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 women | case |
| 31 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shoots | obl |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 chambers | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 blaze | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 blaze | cc |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 moment | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 moment | det |
| 37 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 blaze | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 story | det |
| 39 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 story | amod |
| 40 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 story | amod |
| 41 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 blaze | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 blaze | cop |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 blaze | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 blaze | det |
| 45 | blaze | blaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoots | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 puts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | gerund | this | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | present | Nikita | Nikita's Cap of Invisibility | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cap=Destination | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | Nikita not said here | the bow | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material | ||||
| 4 | shoot | present | Nikita not said here | the arrow | the queen's terema | the women's chambers obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into terema=Destination | ||
| 5 | is | present | the whole upper story | a blaze | moment | tree rules |
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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