Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 85
Only the sparrow attracted them thither by its shrill chirruping.
Who acts: sparrow · What happens: attract, chirrup · To what, where: Jews
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 (sparrow), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 attracted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sparrow | det |
| 3 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attracted | nsubj |
| 4 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 attracted | obj |
| 6 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 9 shrill | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 shrill | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shrill | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attracted | advcl |
| 10 | chirruping | chirrup | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 shrill | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | the sparrow | Jews = jew | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 2 | chirrup | gerund | the sparrow not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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