Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 52
"Who sowed this sort of corn?"
What happens: sow, sort · To what, where: sort, corn
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sowed | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sowed | nsubj |
| 3 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sort | det |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sowed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 corn | case |
| 7 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sowed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow in a quote | past | this sort of corn | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sort in a quote | corn | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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