Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 72

According to an old Lithuanian tradition, the shape of the sole is due to the fact that the Queen of the Baltic Sea once ate one half of it and threw the other half into the sea again.

Who acts: Queen · What happens: accord, be, eat, throw · To what, where: one half, other half, sea

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: who acts (Queen), 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 tradition	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tradition	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tradition	amod
5	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tradition	amod
6	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fact	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shape	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shape	det
9	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tradition	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sole	det
12	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shape	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fact	cop
14	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	17 fact	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 due	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fact	det
17	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 ate	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ate	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Sea	det
23	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	_	24 Sea	compound
24	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Queen	nmod
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 ate	advmod
26	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fact	acl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 half	nummod
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 ate	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 half	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 threw	cc
32	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 ate	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 half	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 half	amod
35	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	32 threw	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 sea	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sea	det
38	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 threw	obl
39	again	again	ADV	_	32 threw	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 fact	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				due the fact; accord a old Lithuanian tradition and the shape of the sole	tree rules
3	eat	past	the Queen of the Baltic Sea	one half of half		once property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient
4	throw	past	the Queen of the Baltic Sea not said here	the other half	again	into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer half=Theme into sea=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/72/