Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 35
They took to licking their lips, and scratching their heads, and wondering to whose share so great an honor would fall.
Who acts: grandfathers, honor · What happens: take, lick, scratch, wonder, fall · To what, where: lips, heads
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 (grandfathers, honor), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 licking | mark |
| 4 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lips | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 licking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scratching | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scratching | cc |
| 9 | scratching | scratch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scratching | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 great | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 great | cc |
| 14 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 great | csubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 share | case |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 share | nmod:poss |
| 17 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wondering | obl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 great | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 took | parataxis |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 honor | det |
| 21 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fall | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fall | aux |
| 23 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 great | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | grandfathers = grandfather | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | grandfathers = grandfather not said here | grandfathers's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 3 | scratch | gerund | grandfathers = grandfather not said here | grandfathers's heads | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | to share | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | fall | would | a honor | vn occur-48.3 «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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