Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 92
But just as she is turning to the fourth, she lays her flute on the ground.
Who acts: most · What happens: turn, lay · To what, where: fourth, flute, ground
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 (most), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 turning | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 turning | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 turning | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 turning | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 turning | aux |
| 6 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lays | csubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fourth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fourth | det |
| 9 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 turning | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turning | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lays | nsubj |
| 12 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flute | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lays | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lays | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present · progressive | most | the fourth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to fourth=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | most | most's flute | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme on ground=Destination |
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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