Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 126
In the Skazkas a simpleton is known as a _durak_, a word which admits of a variety of explanations.
Who acts: word · What happens: know, admit · To what, where: simpleton, Skazkas
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Skazkas | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Skazkas | det |
| 3 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 simpleton | det |
| 5 | simpleton | simpleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 durak | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 durak | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 durak | punct |
| 11 | durak | durak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obl |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 durak | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 durak | appos |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 admits | nsubj |
| 17 | admits | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 variety | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 variety | det |
| 20 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 admits | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 explanations | case |
| 22 | explanations | explanation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 variety | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | a simpleton | the Skazkas | as a durak | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as durak=Attribute | |||
| 2 | admit speech: other | present | a word | of a variety of explanations | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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