Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 156
Page 153--foul's amended to fowl's--"... twirling round on "a fowl's leg.
What happens: amend, twirl · To what, where: foul, leg
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: 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 | root | root |
| 2 | 153 | 153 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 foul | punct |
| 4 | foul | foul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 foul | case |
| 6 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 foul | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 -- | case |
| 8 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 -- | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 fowl | case |
| 10 | -- | -- | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 amended | obl |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 -- | punct |
| 12 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 13 twirling | punct |
| 13 | twirling | twirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Page | conj |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 twirling | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 leg | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fowl | det |
| 18 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leg | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 fowl | case |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twirling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | foul not said here | to fowl's -- | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | twirl in a quote | gerund | a fowl's leg | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on leg=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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