Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 153
The _Zhar-Ptitsa_ recommences its magic song, and its cage flashes anew like fire.
Who acts: Zhar _, cage, horse · What happens: recommence, flash, sing · To what, where: magic song
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 (Zhar _, cage, horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 _ | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zhar | punct |
| 3 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 _ | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zhar | punct |
| 5 | Ptitsa | Ptitsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zhar | flat |
| 6 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recommences | nsubj |
| 7 | recommences | recommence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 song | nmod:poss |
| 9 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 song | compound |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recommences | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flashes | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flashes | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flashes | nsubj |
| 15 | flashes | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 recommences | conj |
| 16 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flashes | xcomp |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 fire | case |
| 18 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flashes | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 recommences | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommence | present | the Zhar _ | horse's magic song | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | flash | present | horse's cage | like fire; anew property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing | horse | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/153/