Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 1
There is a good deal of social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings, and at some of the gatherings which then take place skazkas are told, though at those in which only the young people participate, songs, games, and dances are more popular.
Who acts: good deal, gatherings, young people, dances · What happens: be, take, tell, participate, deal · To what, where: place skazkas, some, songs, social life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good deal, gatherings, young people, dances), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deal | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 villages | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 villages | det |
| 11 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 villages | amod |
| 12 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 life | nmod |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 evenings | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 evenings | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 evenings | amod |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 evenings | compound |
| 17 | evenings | evening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 villages | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 told | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 some | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 told | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 gatherings | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gatherings | det |
| 24 | gatherings | gathering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 some | nmod |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 take | nsubj |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 take | advmod |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 gatherings | acl:relcl |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 skazkas | compound |
| 29 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 told | aux:pass |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 those | punct |
| 33 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 35 those | mark |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 those | case |
| 35 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 44 songs | det |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 participate | obl |
| 38 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 people | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 people | det |
| 40 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 people | amod |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 participate | nsubj |
| 42 | participate | participate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 those | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 songs | punct |
| 44 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 told | iobj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 games | punct |
| 46 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 songs | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 popular | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 popular | cc |
| 49 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 popular | nsubj |
| 50 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 popular | cop |
| 51 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 52 popular | advmod |
| 52 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 songs | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a good deal of social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the gatherings | place skazkas | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | some | that songs and games | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient song=Topic | ||||
| 4 | participate | present | the young people | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | dances | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | deal | social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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