Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 91
In one of the Skazkas[339] a stepdaughter is assisted by her cow.
Who acts: cow · What happens: assist · To what, where: Skazkas
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 (cow), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 assisted | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Skazkas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Skazkas | det |
| 5 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 assisted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 339 | punct |
| 7 | 339 | 339 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 Skazkas | list |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 339 | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stepdaughter | det |
| 10 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assisted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 assisted | aux:pass |
| 12 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 cow | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 assisted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist | present · passive | tree's cow | the Skazkas | in one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
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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