Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 15
And who's that sitting on the stove-pipe there?"
What happens: sit · To what, where: stove pipe
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sitting | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pipe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pipe | det |
| 8 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pipe | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 stove | punct |
| 10 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sitting | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | the stove pipe; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pipe=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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