Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 80

In a variant of the "Fox Physician" from the Vologda Government, it is a pea which gives birth to the wondrous tree. "

Who acts: Government, pea, Fox Physician · What happens: be, give, vary · To what, where: pea, variant, birth, wondrous tree

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 (Government, pea, Fox Physician), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 variant	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 variant	det
3	variant	variant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pea	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 Physician	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Physician	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Physician	punct
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Physician	compound
8	Physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 variant	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Physician	punct
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 Government	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Government	det
12	Vologda	Vologda	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Government	compound
13	Government	Government	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Physician	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 variant	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pea	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pea	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pea	det
18	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gives	nsubj
20	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pea	acl:relcl
21	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 tree	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
24	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tree	amod
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gives	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 pea	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 pea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	Government	a pea		a variant of the Fox Physician from the Vologda Government	tree rules
2	give	present	a pea	birth	the wondrous tree		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to tree=Recipient
3	vary		the Fox Physician from the Vologda Government				nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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