Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 85
No better specimen of the stories of this class referring to drunkenness can be offered than the history of--
Who acts: class · What happens: refer, offer · To what, where: better specimen
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 (class), 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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 3 specimen | advmod |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 specimen | amod |
| 3 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 specimen | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 class | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 class | det |
| 9 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | nmod |
| 10 | referring | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 class | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 drunkenness | case |
| 12 | drunkenness | drunkenness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 referring | obl |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 offered | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 offered | aux:pass |
| 15 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 history | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 history | det |
| 18 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offered | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 history | case |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | gerund | this class not said here | to drunkenness | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to drunkenness=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | can · passive | better specimen of the stories of this class | than the history | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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