Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 1
The Russian peasant is by no means deficient in humor, a fact of which the Skazkas offer abundant evidence.
Who acts: Russian peasant · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 peasant | amod |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | cop |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 no | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 means | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | deficient | deficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 humor | case |
| 10 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deficient | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fact | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fact | det |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fact | nmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 offer | det |
| 17 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | compound |
| 18 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 which | nsubj |
| 19 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evidence | amod |
| 20 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Russian peasant | by no; a fact obl; deficient, mean property | tree rules |
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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