Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 142
When she reaches the top, she finds an _izbushka_ or cottage there, its walls made of pies, its tables of cheese, its stove of pancakes, and so forth.
Who acts: wife · What happens: reach, find, make · To what, where: top, izbushka, walls
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 (wife), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 reaches | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 finds | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reaches | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 finds | nsubj |
| 8 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 izbushka | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 izbushka | punct |
| 11 | izbushka | izbushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 finds | obj |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 cottage | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 cottage | cc |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 izbushka | appos |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 cottage | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walls | punct |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 walls | nmod:poss |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cottage | conj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 walls | acl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pies | case |
| 21 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tables | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tables | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pies | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 cheese | case |
| 26 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tables | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stove | punct |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 stove | nmod:poss |
| 29 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pies | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 pancakes | case |
| 31 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 stove | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 forth | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 forth | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 forth | advmod |
| 35 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 finds | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | wife | the top | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | present | wife | a izbushka | forth property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent izbushka=Topic | |||
| 3 | make | participle | cottage's walls not said here | of pies and cottage's tables of cheese and cheese's stove of pancakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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