Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 66
In the German story of "Die sieben Raben" (Grimm, No. 25) a father's "hasty word" turns his six sons into ravens.]
Who acts: father · What happens: die, turn · To what, where: Raben, German story, six sons, ravens · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 3 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Die | obl |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 Die | mark |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Die | punct |
| 7 | Die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | sieben | sieben | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Raben | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Raben | Raben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Die | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Raben | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grimm | punct |
| 12 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Raben | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 25 | punct |
| 14 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 15 25 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Grimm | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Grimm | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turns | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 father | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 word | punct |
| 21 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 word | amod |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 father | appos |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 word | punct |
| 24 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Die | parataxis |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sons | nmod:poss |
| 26 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 sons | nummod |
| 27 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 turns | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 ravens | case |
| 29 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 turns | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Die | punct |
| 31 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 Die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | imperative | Raben sieben | the German story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | a father | father's six sons | ravens | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent son=Theme into raven=Trajectory |
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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