Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 43
A circle of brushwood is then lighted, in the centre of which is set the pie.
What happens: light, set · To what, where: circle, centre, pie
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 circle | det |
| 2 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 brushwood | case |
| 4 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 circle | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lighted | aux:pass |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lighted | advmod |
| 7 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 centre | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 centre | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 centre | det |
| 11 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lighted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 set | obl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 centre | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pie | det |
| 17 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | present · passive | a circle of brushwood | the centre | then | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 2 | set | present · passive | the pie | of the centre | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: pie=Result |
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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