Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 62
Soldiers are crown property; no one is allowed to eat them."
Who acts: one · What happens: crown, allow, eat · To what, where: Soldiers, one, teeth
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 (one), 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 | Soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crown | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 crown | aux:pass |
| 3 | crown | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crown | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 allowed | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 allowed | aux:pass |
| 9 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crown | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 eat | mark |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 allowed | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 eat | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crown | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | present · passive | Soldiers | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme property=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | no one | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | teeth = tooth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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