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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 25

There's a mill there--every time it turns, out come a pie and a cake, with a pot of _kasha_ on top!"

Who acts: mill · What happens: be, turn, come · To what, where: pie, top

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

expldetnsubjadvmodpunctdetobl:unmarkednsubjconjpunctadvmodccompdetobjccdetconjpunctcasedetoblcasepunctnmodpunctcaseoblpunctpunctrootTherePRON'sVERBaDETmillNOUNthereADV--PUNCTeveryDETtimeNOUNitPRONturnsVERB,PUNCToutADVcomeVERBaDETpieNOUNandCCONJaDETcakeNOUN,PUNCTwithADPaDETpotNOUNofADP_PUNCTkashaNOUN_PUNCTonADPtopNOUN!PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 'sexpl
2'sbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 milldet
4millmillNOUN_2 'snsubj
5therethereADVPronType=Dem2 'sadvmod
6----PUNCT_10 turnspunct
7everyeveryDETPronType=Tot8 timedet
8timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing10 turnsobl:unmarked
9ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 turnsnsubj
10turnsturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 'sconj
11,,PUNCT_13 comepunct
12outoutADV_13 comeadvmod
13comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 turnsccomp
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 piedet
15piepieNOUNNumber=Sing13 comeobj
16andandCCONJ_18 cakecc
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 cakedet
18cakecakeNOUNNumber=Sing15 pieconj
19,,PUNCT_22 potpunct
20withwithADP_22 potcase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 potdet
22potpotNOUNNumber=Sing13 comeobl
23ofofADP_25 kashacase
24__PUNCT_23 ofpunct
25kashakashaNOUNNumber=Sing22 potnmod
26__PUNCT_22 potpunct
27ononADP_28 topcase
28toptopNOUNNumber=Sing13 comeobl
29!!PUNCT_13 comepunct
30""PUNCT_2 'spunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresenta millthere; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2turnpresentmilltimetree rules
3comeinfinitivemill not said herea pie and a caketopwith a pot of kasha; out propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pie=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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