Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 138
It feeds upon golden apples which have the power of bestowing youth and beauty, or according to a Croatian version, on magic-grasses.
Who acts: notice, golden apples, power · What happens: feed, have, bestow, accord · To what, where: power, youth
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 (notice, golden apples, power), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 feeds | nsubj |
| 2 | feeds | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 apples | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apples | amod |
| 5 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feeds | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 apples | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 bestowing | mark |
| 11 | bestowing | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 power | acl |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bestowing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beauty | cc |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 youth | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 version | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 version | cc |
| 17 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 version | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 according | fixed |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 version | det |
| 20 | Croatian | croatian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 version | amod |
| 21 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feeds | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 grasses | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 grasses | case |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grasses | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 magic | punct |
| 26 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feeds | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feeds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | present | notice | upon golden apples; accord a Croatian version; on magic grasses | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | golden apples | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bestow | gerund | the power not said here | youth and beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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