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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mill | det |
| 4 | mill | mill | NOUN | _ | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 's | advmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 turns | punct |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turns | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turns | nsubj |
| 10 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 turns | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pie | det |
| 15 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cake | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cake | det |
| 18 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pie | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pot | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 kasha | case |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 of | punct |
| 25 | kasha | kasha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | nmod |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 pot | punct |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 top | case |
| 28 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a mill | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | mill | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | mill not said here | a pie and a cake | top | with a pot of kasha; out property | vn 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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