Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 75
One day she was eating beans, and she let one fall on the ground.
Who acts: fox, one · What happens: eat, let, fall · To what, where: beans, ground
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 (fox, one), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eating | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eating | aux |
| 5 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 6 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eating | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fall | nsubj |
| 12 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fall | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | fox | beans | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | past | fox | day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | one | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |
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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