Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 98
As a punishment for its sins, its legs have been fastened together by invisible bonds, and therefore it always hops, not being able to run.
Who acts: invisible bonds, sin · What happens: fasten, hop, not be, run · To what, where: legs
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 (invisible bonds, sin), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 punishment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 punishment | det |
| 3 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fastened | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 sins | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sins | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 punishment | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punishment | punct |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 legs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fastened | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 fastened | aux:pass |
| 12 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 fastened | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bonds | case |
| 15 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bonds | amod |
| 16 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fastened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hops | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hops | cc |
| 19 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 hops | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hops | nsubj |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 22 hops | advmod |
| 22 | hops | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fastened | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 able | advmod |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hops | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 run | mark |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | present · perfect · passive | invisible bonds | sin's legs | as a punishment for punishment's sins; together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | hop | present | sin | always, therefore property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | gerund | sin not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | sin not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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