Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 97
But the sparrow is an unwelcome guest, whose entry into a cottage is a presage of woe.
Who acts: sparrow, unwelcome guest · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: unwelcome guest, presage, cottage
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, unwelcome guest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 guest | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sparrow | det |
| 3 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guest | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 guest | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guest | det |
| 6 | unwelcome | unwelcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guest | compound |
| 7 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presage | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entry | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 entry | nmod:poss |
| 10 | entry | entry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guest | appos |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cottage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cottage | det |
| 13 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entry | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 presage | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 presage | det |
| 16 | presage | presage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 woe | case |
| 18 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 presage | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 presage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the sparrow | a unwelcome guest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a unwelcome guest | a presage | of woe | tree rules | |||
| 3 | enter | a unwelcome guest | a cottage | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent into=place |
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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