Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 162
"As a feather on water!" replies the king, who can scarcely draw his breath beneath the crushing weight of the hand he has won.
Who acts: feather, king · What happens: reply, draw, crush, win · To what, where: king, breath, hand
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 (feather, king), 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 | _ | 4 feather | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 feather | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replies | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feather | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 feather | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 feather | punct |
| 9 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replies | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 draw | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 draw | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 draw | aux |
| 15 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 16 draw | advmod |
| 16 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 breath | nmod:poss |
| 18 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draw | obj |
| 19 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 22 weight | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weight | det |
| 21 | crushing | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 weight | amod |
| 22 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 draw | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weight | nmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 won | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 won | aux |
| 28 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 hand | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | a feather on water | the king | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | draw | can | the king | feather's breath | beneath the crushing weight of the hand; scarcely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | |||
| 3 | crush | gerund | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | win | present · perfect | feather | the hand not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Eventuality |
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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