Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 159
In a variant of the story the bird is captured by means of a trap--a cage in which "pearls large and small" have been strewed.
Who acts: story, variant · What happens: capture, mean, pearl, strew, vary · To what, where: bird, cage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, variant), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 variant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 variant | det |
| 3 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 variant | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 captured | aux:pass |
| 10 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 captured | obl |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trap | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 trap | det |
| 15 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 cage | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cage | det |
| 18 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trap | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 pearls | obl |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pearls | punct |
| 22 | pearls | pearl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cage | acl:relcl |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 strewed | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 small | cc |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 large | conj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 large | punct |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 strewed | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 strewed | aux:pass |
| 29 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pearls | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | present · passive | the story not said here | the bird | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | a variant of the story | of a trap | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pearl in a quote | present | a cage | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | strew | present · perfect · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | vary | the story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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