Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 13
The Pope grew envious: "Come," thinks he, "I'll steal them from him!"
Who acts: Pope · What happens: grow, come, think, steal · To what, where: Pope, loaves · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pope), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Pope | det |
| 2 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Come | punct |
| 7 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 grew | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thinks | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 steal | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 steal | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 steal | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 steal | aux |
| 16 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thinks | ccomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 steal | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 steal | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 steal | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Pope | envious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | the Pope not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | the Pope not said here | Pope | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | steal in a quote | future | the Pope = pope | loaves = loaf | from Pope | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from he=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/13/