Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 54
Sometimes it is a victim's own imprudence, and not a parent's "hasty word," which has placed him in the power of the Evil One.
Who acts: cross, parent · What happens: be, not word, place · To what, where: own imprudence, hasty word, power
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cross, parent), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 imprudence | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 imprudence | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 imprudence | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 victim | det |
| 5 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 imprudence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 victim | case |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 imprudence | amod |
| 8 | imprudence | imprudence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 word | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 word | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 parent | det |
| 13 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 word | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 parent | case |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 16 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 word | amod |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 imprudence | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 word | acl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 power | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 power | det |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 One | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 One | det |
| 29 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 One | amod |
| 30 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 power | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 imprudence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | cross | a victim's own imprudence | sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not word in a quote | a parent | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | place | present · perfect · passive | hasty word | the power of the Evil One | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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