Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 137
A single feather from its tail illuminates a dark room.
Who acts: single feather · What happens: illuminate · To what, where: dark room
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single feather), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 feather | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feather | amod |
| 3 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 illuminates | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tail | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feather | nmod |
| 7 | illuminates | illuminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 room | amod |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 illuminates | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 illuminates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | present | a single feather from notice's tail | a dark room | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Destination |
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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