Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 49
Above all we become familiar with those cottage interiors to which the stories contain so many references.
Who acts: we, stories · What happens: become, contain · To what, where: all, many references
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, stories), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 become | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 become | nsubj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 interiors | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 interiors | det |
| 8 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 interiors | compound |
| 9 | interiors | interior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 familiar | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 contain | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stories | det |
| 13 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contain | nsubj |
| 14 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 interiors | acl:relcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 references | amod |
| 17 | references | reference | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contain | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | we | all | familiar property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | contain | present | the stories | many references | to that cottage interiors | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reference=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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