Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 138
Page 98--gronnd amended to ground--"The Eagle smote upon the ground ..."
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: amend, smite · To what, where: gronnd
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smote | compound |
| 2 | 98 | 98 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 gronnd | punct |
| 4 | gronnd | gronnd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gronnd | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 amended | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 smote | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 smote | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Eagle | det |
| 11 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 smote | nsubj |
| 12 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 ground | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smote | obl |
| 16 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 12 smote | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | gronnd not said here | to ground | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | smite in a quote | past | the Eagle | upon the ground | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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