Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 128
In the stories of village life its signification is generally that of a "ninny;" in the "fairy stories" it is frequently applied to the youngest of the well-known "Three Brothers," the "Boots" of the family as Dr. Dasent has called him.
Who acts: signification, life · What happens: be, apply, know, call, signify · To what, where: stories, fairy stories, Dasent · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (signification, life), 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 stories | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ninny | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | compound |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stories | nmod |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 signification | nmod:poss |
| 8 | signification | signification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ninny | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ninny | cop |
| 10 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 15 ninny | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ninny | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ninny | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ninny | det |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ninny | punct |
| 15 | ninny | ninny | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 applied | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stories | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 stories | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stories | det |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stories | punct |
| 21 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stories | compound |
| 22 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 stories | punct |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 applied | aux:pass |
| 26 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 27 applied | advmod |
| 27 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ninny | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 youngest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 youngest | det |
| 30 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 applied | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Brothers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Brothers | det |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 known | advmod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 well | punct |
| 35 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 Brothers | amod |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Brothers | punct |
| 37 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 Brothers | nummod |
| 38 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 youngest | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Boots | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 Boots | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Boots | det |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 Boots | punct |
| 43 | Boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 applied | obl |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 Boots | punct |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 family | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 family | det |
| 47 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Boots | nmod |
| 48 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 called | mark |
| 49 | Dr. | Dr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Dasent | nmod:desc |
| 50 | Dasent | Dasent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 called | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 called | aux |
| 52 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 applied | advcl |
| 53 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 called | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ninny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | life's signification | the stories of village life | of a ninny; generally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | apply | present · passive | the fairy stories | to the youngest of the known Three Brothers; the Boots of the family obl; frequently property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | call speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | Dasent Dr. | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Result | |||||
| 5 | signify | life | nom signification «communication transitive»: poss=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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