Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 138
Then it is thrown into the fire, but it extinguishes the flames, flies right into the Barin's guest-chamber, and crows as before.
Who acts: well · What happens: throw, extinguish, fly · To what, where: well, fire, flames, guest chamber
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 (well), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thrown | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | aux:pass |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 extinguishes | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 extinguishes | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 extinguishes | nsubj |
| 11 | extinguishes | extinguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flames | det |
| 13 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 extinguishes | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flies | punct |
| 15 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 extinguishes | conj |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 flies | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 chamber | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Barin | det |
| 19 | Barin | Barin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Barin | case |
| 21 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chamber | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 guest | punct |
| 23 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flies | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crows | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 crows | cc |
| 26 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thrown | obl |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 before | advmod |
| 28 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 thrown | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present · passive | well | then | into the fire result; crows obl; before property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 2 | extinguish | present | well | the flames | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flame=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly | present | well not said here | into the Barin's guest chamber result; right property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into chamber=Result |
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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