Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 30

It is all on fire, and it runs on wheels, and turns round and round."

Who acts: Gossip · What happens: be, run, turn · To what, where: fire, wheels

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gossip), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fire	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fire	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 fire	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 fire	case
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 runs	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 runs	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 runs	nsubj
9	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fire	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 wheels	case
11	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 runs	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turns	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turns	cc
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 runs	conj
15	round	round	ADV	_	14 turns	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 round	cc
17	round	round	ADV	_	15 round	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fire	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gossip	fire	all property	tree rules
2	run	present	Gossip	wheels		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wheel=Trajectory
3	turn	present	Gossip not said here		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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