Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 13
Far away in outlying districts of Russia we find the same time-honored quips which have so long figured in collections of English facetiae.
Who acts: we, same honored quips · What happens: outlie, find, honor, have, figure · To what, where: same honored quips, collections
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 (we, same honored quips), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 districts | case |
| 4 | outlying | outlie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 districts | amod |
| 5 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 away | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Russia | case |
| 7 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 districts | nmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 districts | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 quips | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 quips | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honored | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 14 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 quips | amod |
| 15 | quips | quip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 find | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 quips | acl:relcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 have | advmod |
| 20 | figured | figure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 have | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 collections | case |
| 22 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 figured | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 facetiae | case |
| 24 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 facetiae | amod |
| 25 | facetiae | facetiae | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 collections | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 away | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outlie | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | find | present | we | the same honored quips | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quip=Topic | ||||
| 3 | honor | participle | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | the same honored quips | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | figure | participle | the same honored quips not said here | collections of English facetiae | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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