Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 141
In a variant from the Smolensk Government, it is the wife who climbs up the pea-stalk, while the husband remains down below.
Who acts: Government, wife, husband · What happens: be, climb up, remain · To what, where: wife, variant, pea stalk
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 (Government, wife, husband), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 variant | det |
| 3 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Government | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Government | det |
| 6 | Smolensk | Smolensk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Government | compound |
| 7 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 variant | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 variant | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 climbs | nsubj |
| 14 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 climbs | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stalk | det |
| 17 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stalk | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pea | punct |
| 19 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climbs | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remains | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 remains | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 husband | det |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 remains | nsubj |
| 24 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 climbs | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 below | advmod |
| 26 | below | below | ADV | _ | 24 remains | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Government | the wife | a variant from the Smolensk Government | tree rules | |||
| 2 | climb up | present | the wife | the pea stalk | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | the husband | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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