Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 109
A cock finds a pea in the part of a cottage under the floor, and begins calling to the hens; the cottager hears the call, drives away the cock, and pours water over the pea.
Who acts: cock, cottager · What happens: find, begin, call, hear, drive away, pour · To what, where: pea, part, hens, call, cock, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, cottager), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cock | det |
| 2 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pea | det |
| 5 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pea | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cottage | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 begins | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begins | cc |
| 17 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | parataxis |
| 18 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 begins | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 hens | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hens | det |
| 21 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 calling | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 hears | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cottager | det |
| 24 | cottager | cottager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hears | nsubj |
| 25 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 call | det |
| 27 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hears | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drives | punct |
| 29 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hears | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 drives | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cock | det |
| 32 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drives | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pours | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 pours | cc |
| 35 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 36 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pours | obj |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 pea | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pea | det |
| 39 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pours | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a cock | a pea | the part of a cottage under the floor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pea=Topic | |||
| 2 | begin | present | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the hens | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hen=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | hear | present | the cottager | the call | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer call=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | drive away | present | the cottager not said here | the cock | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | |||
| 6 | pour | present | a cock not said here | water | the pea | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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