Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 88
And while our Lord was hanging on the cross the sparrows were maliciously exclaiming _Jif!
Who acts: Lord, sparrows · What happens: hang, exclaim · To what, where: cross, Jif
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, sparrows), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hanging | cc |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 hanging | mark |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hanging | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hanging | aux |
| 6 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cross | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cross | det |
| 9 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hanging | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sparrows | det |
| 11 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 exclaiming | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 exclaiming | aux |
| 13 | maliciously | maliciously | ADV | _ | 14 exclaiming | advmod |
| 14 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cross | acl:relcl |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Jif | punct |
| 16 | Jif | Jif | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 exclaiming | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past · progressive | our Lord | the cross | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cross=Location | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past · progressive | the sparrows | Jif | maliciously property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jif=Topic |
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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