Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 95
Well, the old man put the pieces of the Princess's body together, bit by bit, and breathed on them--and the Princess stood up alive and well.
Who acts: old man, Princess · What happens: put, breathe, stand up · To what, where: pieces
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 (old man, Princess), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 put | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pieces | det |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pieces | nmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bit | punct |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 bit | case |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 breathed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 breathed | cc |
| 21 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 put | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 breathed | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 stood | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stood | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Princess | det |
| 27 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stood | nsubj |
| 28 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 stood | compound:prt |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stood | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 well | cc |
| 32 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 alive | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | the old man | the pieces of the Princess's body | bit by bit obl; together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal | |||
| 2 | breathe | participle | on pieces = piece | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on they=Destination | |||||
| 3 | stand up | past | the Princess | alive property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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