Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 14
A little later he sees a group of girls who are ladling water from one well into another, who make the same request.
Who acts: beggar, girls, group · What happens: see, ladle, make · To what, where: group, water, same request
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: who acts (beggar, girls, group), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 sees | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 girls | case |
| 9 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ladling | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ladling | aux |
| 12 | ladling | ladle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 girls | acl:relcl |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ladling | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ladling | obl |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 one | fixed |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 another | case |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 group | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 request | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 request | amod |
| 24 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | beggar | a group of girls | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer group=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ladle | present · progressive | girls | water | from one into another | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme from one=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | make | present | a group of girls | the same request | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Product |
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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