Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 12
Take, for instance, the skits against women which are so universally popular.
Who acts: you, women · What happens: take, be · To what, where: instance
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 (you, women), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 instance | case |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skits | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skits | det |
| 7 | skits | skit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 instance | appos |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 women | case |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 skits | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 popular | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 popular | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 popular | advmod |
| 13 | universally | universally | ADV | _ | 14 popular | advmod |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 women | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | instance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | women | popular, universally 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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