Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 21
The mill gives a turn--out come a pie and a cake with a pot of stewed grain on top.
Who acts: mill · What happens: give, come, stew · To what, where: turn, pie
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 (mill), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mill | det |
| 2 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 turn | det |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 come | obl |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pie | det |
| 10 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cake | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cake | det |
| 13 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pie | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 pot | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pot | det |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 grain | case |
| 18 | stewed | stew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 grain | amod |
| 19 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pot | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 top | case |
| 21 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grain | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the mill | a turn | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | a pie and a cake | with a pot of stewed grain on top | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pie=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stew | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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