Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 81
Then the Lord waxed wroth and forbade it and its posterity ever to approach a sea or stream, allowing it to quench its thirst with that water only which remains in hollows and among stones after rain.
Who acts: Lord, posterity, earth · What happens: wax, forbid, approach, allow, quench, remain · To what, where: earth, sea, thirst, hollows
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 (Lord, posterity, earth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 waxed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 waxed | nsubj |
| 4 | waxed | wax | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waxed | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 forbade | cc |
| 7 | forbade | forbid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waxed | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forbade | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 approach | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 posterity | nmod:poss |
| 11 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approach | nsubj |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 approach | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 approach | mark |
| 14 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 forbade | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 approach | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 stream | cc |
| 18 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sea | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allowing | punct |
| 20 | allowing | allow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 approach | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 allowing | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 quench | mark |
| 23 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allowing | xcomp |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 25 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 quench | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remains | obl |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 remains | advmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 remains | nsubj |
| 31 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 quench | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 hollows | case |
| 33 | hollows | hollow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 remains | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stones | cc |
| 35 | among | among | ADP | _ | 36 stones | case |
| 36 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hollows | conj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 rain | case |
| 38 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remains | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waxed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wax | past | the Lord | then | wroth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | forbid | past | the Lord not said here | earth | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | approach | to-infinitive | earth's posterity | a sea or stream | ever | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | |||
| 4 | allow | gerund | earth's posterity not said here | earth | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | quench not said to happen | to-infinitive | earth not said here | earth's thirst | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | remain | present | hollows and stones | after rain | with that water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hollow=Location | |||
| 7 | thirst | earth | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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