Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 124
At last a duck builds her nest on his head, and lays an egg in it.
What happens: build, lay · To what, where: nest, head, egg
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 duck | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 duck | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 duck | det |
| 4 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 builds | obl |
| 5 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 builds | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 builds | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lays | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lays | cc |
| 13 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 builds | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 egg | det |
| 15 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lays | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lays | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 builds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | duck's nest | moujik's head | at a last duck | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on head=Source | |||
| 2 | lay | present | a egg | egg | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in it=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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