Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 5
The specific actions of the two waters are described with great precision in this story.
Who acts: two waters · What happens: describe, act · To what, where: specific actions
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 (two waters), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 actions | det |
| 2 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 actions | amod |
| 3 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 described | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 waters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 waters | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 waters | nummod |
| 7 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 actions | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 described | aux:pass |
| 9 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 precision | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 precision | amod |
| 12 | precision | precision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 described | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 story | det |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 precision | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | the specific actions of the two waters | with great precision in this story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | act | the two waters | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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