Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 95
In a skazka from the Orenburg Government, a lad named Vanka [Jack] is set to watch his father's turnip-field by night.
What happens: name, set, watch · To what, where: lad, skazka, turnip field
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: 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 | _ | 3 skazka | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 skazka | det |
| 3 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Government | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Government | det |
| 6 | Orenburg | Orenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Government | compound |
| 7 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 skazka | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 skazka | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lad | det |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lad | acl |
| 12 | Vanka | Vanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jack | punct |
| 14 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Vanka | appos |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 Jack | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux:pass |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 watch | mark |
| 19 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 set | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 field | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 father | case |
| 23 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 field | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 turnip | punct |
| 25 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 watch | obj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 watch | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a lad not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set | present · passive | a lad | a skazka from the Orenburg Government | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | Jack's father's turnip field | night | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
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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