Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 83
He lowered the cripple into the water, and the lame man's feet grew again.
Who acts: man, feet · What happens: lower, grow · To what, where: cripple, water
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 (man, feet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lowered | nsubj |
| 2 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cripple | det |
| 4 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lowered | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lowered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lowered | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 grew | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past | man | the cripple | the water | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cripple=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 2 | grow | past | the lame man's feet | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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