Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 79
Uncle Katoma cut a dry spray from a tree, and flung it into the fount.
Who acts: Uncle Katoma · What happens: cut, fling · To what, where: dry spray, tree, spray, fount
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 (Uncle 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 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Katoma | compound |
| 2 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | nsubj |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spray | det |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spray | amod |
| 6 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cut | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flung | cc |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flung | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 fount | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fount | det |
| 16 | fount | fount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | Uncle Katoma | a dry spray | a tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent spray=Product from tree=Material | |||
| 2 | fling | past | Uncle Katoma not said here | spray | the fount | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into fount=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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