Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 219
From a courtship and a marriage in peasant life we may turn to a death and a burial.
Who acts: we · What happens: turn · To what, where: courtship
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 (we), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 courtship | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 courtship | det |
| 3 | courtship | courtship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 marriage | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 marriage | det |
| 6 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 courtship | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marriage | nmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 turn | aux |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 death | det |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 burial | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 burial | det |
| 18 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 death | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | may | we | a courtship and a marriage in peasant life | to a death and a burial result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from courtship=Initial_State to death=Result |
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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