Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 44
There is one marked feature in the Russian peasant's character to which the Skazkas frequently refer--his passion for drink.
Who acts: one marked feature, Skazkas · What happens: be, mark, refer · To what, where: character
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one marked feature, Skazkas), 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 feature | nummod |
| 4 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feature | amod |
| 5 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 character | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 peasant | det |
| 8 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 peasant | amod |
| 9 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 character | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 peasant | case |
| 11 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 refer | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Skazkas | det |
| 15 | Skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 refer | nsubj |
| 16 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 17 refer | advmod |
| 17 | refer | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 character | acl:relcl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 passion | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 passion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 character | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 drink | case |
| 22 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passion | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one marked feature | the Russian peasant's character and feature's passion for drink; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in character=Location | ||||
| 2 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | refer | present | the Skazkas | to the Russian peasant's character and feature's passion for drink; frequently property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-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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