Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 109
And from this drop of blood there sprang up a cherry-tree; and its first leaf was golden, and its second leaf was of richer colour still, and its third leaf was yet another colour, and every leaf upon it was different to the others.
Who acts: first leaf, second leaf, third leaf, leaf · What happens: spring up, be · To what, where: cherry tree, drop, colour
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first leaf, second leaf, third leaf, leaf), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sprang | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 drop | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 drop | det |
| 4 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 blood | case |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drop | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 blood | advmod |
| 8 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 sprang | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 cherry | punct |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 golden | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 golden | cc |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leaf | nmod:poss |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 leaf | amod |
| 18 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 golden | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 golden | cop |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sprang | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 colour | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 colour | cc |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 leaf | nmod:poss |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 leaf | amod |
| 25 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 colour | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 colour | cop |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 colour | case |
| 28 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 colour | amod |
| 29 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 golden | conj |
| 30 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 colour | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 colour | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 colour | cc |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 leaf | nmod:poss |
| 34 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 leaf | amod |
| 35 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 colour | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 colour | cop |
| 37 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 39 colour | advmod |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 colour | det |
| 39 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sprang | parataxis |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 different | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 different | cc |
| 42 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 leaf | det |
| 43 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 different | nsubj |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 leaf | nmod |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 different | cop |
| 47 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sprang | conj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 others | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 others | det |
| 50 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 different | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | a cherry tree | this drop of blood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | drop's first leaf | golden property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | drop's second leaf | still | of richer colour | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | drop's third leaf | another colour | yet | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | every leaf upon drop | to the others; different property | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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