Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 80
One of the old Russian songs still sung at Christmas, tells how a Pike comes from Novgorod, its scales of silver and gold, its back woven with pearls, a costly diamond gleaming in its head instead of eyes.
Who acts: Pike, costly diamond · What happens: sing, tell, come, weave, gleam · To what, where: old Russian songs, Christmas, Novgorod, back, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pike, costly diamond), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 songs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 songs | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 songs | amod |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 songs | amod |
| 6 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 sung | advmod |
| 8 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 songs | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Christmas | case |
| 10 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tells | punct |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 One | parataxis |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 comes | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Pike | det |
| 15 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tells | ccomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 Novgorod | case |
| 18 | Novgorod | Novgorod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scales | punct |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 scales | nmod:poss |
| 21 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Novgorod | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 scales | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gold | cc |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 silver | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 back | punct |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 back | nmod:poss |
| 28 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 silver | conj |
| 29 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 back | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 pearls | case |
| 31 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 woven | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 diamond | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 diamond | det |
| 34 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 diamond | amod |
| 35 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Novgorod | appos |
| 36 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 diamond | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 head | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 head | nmod:poss |
| 39 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gleaming | obl |
| 40 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 42 eyes | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 instead | fixed |
| 42 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 gleaming | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | participle | the old Russian songs not said here | Christmas | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | a Pike | Novgorod and repute's scales of silver and gold and repute's back | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from novgorod=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | weave | participle | repute's back not said here | with pearls | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gleam | gerund | a costly diamond not said here | repute's head | instead eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location |
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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