Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 220
(2) The Neapolitan story of "Pervonto" (Basile's "Pentamerone," No. 3) who obtains his magic power from three youths whom he screens from the sun as they lie asleep one hot day, and who turn out to be sons of a fairy.
Who acts: Neapolitan story, No., screens · What happens: obtain, screen, lie, turn out, be · To what, where: magic power, three youths, sons
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neapolitan story, No., screens), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 turn | discourse |
| 3 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | Neapolitan | Neapolitan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | compound |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 2 | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pervonto | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pervonto | punct |
| 9 | Pervonto | Pervonto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pervonto | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Basile | punct |
| 12 | Basile | Basile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Pervonto | flat |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Basile | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Basile | punct |
| 15 | Pentamerone | Pentamerone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Basile | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 No. | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 No. | punct |
| 18 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 12 Basile | appos |
| 19 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 No. | flat |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Basile | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 obtains | nsubj |
| 22 | obtains | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 power | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 power | compound |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 obtains | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 youths | case |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 youths | nummod |
| 28 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 obtains | obl |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 screens | amod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 screens | nsubj |
| 31 | screens | screen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 youths | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 sun | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun | det |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 obtains | obl |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 lie | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lie | nsubj |
| 37 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 obtains | advcl |
| 38 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 one | amod |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 day | compound |
| 40 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 day | amod |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lie | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 turn | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 turn | cc |
| 44 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 turn | nsubj |
| 45 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 turn | compound:prt |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 sons | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 sons | cop |
| 49 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 turn | xcomp |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 fairy | case |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 fairy | det |
| 52 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sons | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | present | the Neapolitan story of Pervonto | No.'s magic power | three youths and whom screens | from the sun | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent power=Theme from youth=Source | ||
| 2 | screen | No. | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lie | present | screens = screen | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn out | present | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | sons | of a fairy | tree rules |
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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