Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 30
But as for the youngest one, Ivan, he was like a half-grown lad or a half-fledged duckling, terribly inferior to the others.
Who acts: brother · What happens: grow, be, fledge
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 one | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 one | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ivan | punct |
| 8 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 one | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lad | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lad | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lad | cop |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 lad | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lad | det |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 grown | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lad | amod |
| 17 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | parataxis |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 duckling | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 duckling | det |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 fledged | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 half | punct |
| 22 | fledged | fledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 duckling | amod |
| 23 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lad | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 inferior | punct |
| 25 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 26 inferior | advmod |
| 26 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lad | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 others | det |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inferior | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | brother | like a grown lad or a fledged duckling | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fledge | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | brother not said here | to the others; terribly property | 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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