Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 127
Sometimes it means an idiot, sometimes a fool in the sense of a jester.
Who acts: variety · What happens: mean, sense · To what, where: idiot, jester
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 (variety), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 means | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 idiot | det |
| 5 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fool | punct |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 fool | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fool | det |
| 9 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 idiot | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 sense | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sense | det |
| 12 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fool | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 jester | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jester | det |
| 15 | jester | jester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sense | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | variety | a idiot | sometimes property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idiot=Topic | |||
| 2 | sense | a jester | nom sense «cognition transitive»: 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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