Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 61
One of the most curious of the stories which relate to a village burial,--one in which also the feeling with which the Russian villagers sometimes regard their clergy finds expression--is that called--
Who acts: stories, Russian villagers, feeling · What happens: relate, regard, find, call · To what, where: clergy, expression · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, Russian villagers, feeling), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 curious | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curious | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 curious | advmod |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 curious | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 relate | nsubj |
| 10 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stories | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 burial | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 burial | det |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burial | compound |
| 14 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 relate | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 finds | obl |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 feeling | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 feeling | det |
| 22 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 finds | nsubj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 regard | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 villagers | det |
| 26 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 villagers | amod |
| 27 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 regard | nsubj |
| 28 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 regard | advmod |
| 29 | regard | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 feeling | acl:relcl |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 clergy | nmod:poss |
| 31 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 regard | obj |
| 32 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 one | acl:relcl |
| 33 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 finds | obj |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 called | punct |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 called | aux:pass |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 called | mark |
| 37 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | parataxis |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | the stories | to a village burial | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to burial=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | regard | present | the Russian villagers | villagers's clergy | with the feeling; sometimes property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clergy=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | present | the feeling | expression | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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