Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 178
A soldier is a man who belongs to the crown, and 'crown property cannot be drowned in water nor burnt in fire.'
Who acts: soldier, man · What happens: be, belong, not drown, burnt · To what, where: man, crown property, water, fire
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 belongs | nsubj |
| 7 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crown | det |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belongs | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drowned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drowned | cc |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 property | punct |
| 14 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 property | compound |
| 15 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 drowned | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 drowned | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 drowned | aux:pass |
| 19 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drowned | obl |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 burnt | cc |
| 23 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 drowned | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burnt | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a soldier | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | a man | to the crown | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not drown | can · passive | a man not said here | crown property | water | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | burnt | participle | a man not said here | fire | tree rules |
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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