Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 204
Another lively sketch of a peasant's love-making is given in the introduction to the story of "Ivan the widow's son and Grisha."
Who acts: peasant · What happens: give, make · To what, where: lively sketch, story, introduction
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 (peasant), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 sketch | det |
| 2 | lively | lively | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sketch | amod |
| 3 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 making | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 peasant | det |
| 6 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 peasant | case |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
| 10 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sketch | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux:pass |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 introduction | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 introduction | det |
| 15 | introduction | introduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 given | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Ivan | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ivan | punct |
| 21 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 widow | det |
| 23 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 widow | case |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 story | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Grisha | cc |
| 27 | Grisha | Grisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | another lively sketch of a peasant's love making | the story the widow's son | the introduction | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to story=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | a peasant | nom making «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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