Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 119
There sprang up a marvellous crop--tall and thick.
What happens: spring up · To what, where: marvellous crop
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 sprang | expl |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sprang | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crop | det |
| 5 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crop | amod |
| 6 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 tall | punct |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sprang | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thick | cc |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tall | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | a marvellous crop | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crop=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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