Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 127
In another variant it is an acorn which is sown under the floor.
Who acts: variant · What happens: be, sow · To what, where: acorn, variant, floor
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 (variant), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 variant | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 variant | det |
| 3 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acorn | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 acorn | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 acorn | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 acorn | det |
| 7 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sown | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sown | aux:pass |
| 10 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 acorn | acl:relcl |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 acorn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | variant | a acorn | another variant | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sow | present · passive | a acorn | the floor | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under floor=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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