Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 73
Katoma cut a green branch off a tree, and flung it into the well.
Who acts: Katoma · What happens: cut, fling · To what, where: green branch, branch, well
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 (Katoma), 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 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | nsubj |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flung | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flung | cc |
| 11 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flung | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 well | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 well | det |
| 15 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flung | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Katoma | a green branch | off a tree | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient off tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | fling | past | Katoma not said here | branch | the well | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into well=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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