Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 22
Now they are doomed to pour water from well to well eternally."
What happens: doom, pour · To what, where: girls, water
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 doomed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 doomed | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doomed | aux:pass |
| 4 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pour | mark |
| 6 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 doomed | advcl |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pour | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 well | case |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pour | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 eternally | advmod |
| 12 | eternally | eternally | ADV | _ | 6 pour | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 doomed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 doomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | present · passive | girls = girl | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pour | to-infinitive | water | eternally property | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from well=Initial_Location |
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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