Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 156
Then he has wheat scattered on the ground, and at dawn he hides behind a tree near it. "
Who acts: Ptitsa · What happens: have, scatter, hide · To what, where: wheat, ground, tree
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 (Ptitsa), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 has | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wheat | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scattered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hides | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hides | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 dawn | case |
| 12 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hides | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hides | nsubj |
| 14 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hides | obl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hides | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ptitsa | wheat | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Patient | |||
| 2 | scatter | participle | wheat not said here | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | Ptitsa | a tree | dawn | near tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=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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