Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 10
And in their treatments of these subjects they offer very few novel features.
Who acts: pivots · What happens: offer, treat · To what, where: few novel features, treatments, subjects
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 (pivots), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offer | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 treatments | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 treatments | nmod:poss |
| 4 | treatments | treatment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offer | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 subjects | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 subjects | det |
| 7 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 treatments | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 offer | nsubj |
| 9 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 few | advmod |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 features | amod |
| 12 | novel | novel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 features | amod |
| 13 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 offer | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | pivots = pivot | few novel features | pivots's treatments of this subjects | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent feature=Theme | |||
| 2 | treat | pivots = pivot | this subjects | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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