Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 129
In the latter case, of course, the hero's _durachestvo_, or foolishness, is purely subjective.
Who acts: durachestvo · What happens: be · To what, where: latter case
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 (durachestvo), 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 | _ | 4 case | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 case | det |
| 3 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 case | amod |
| 4 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 subjective | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 course | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 case | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 case | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hero | det |
| 10 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 subjective | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 hero | case |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 subjective | punct |
| 13 | durachestvo | durachestvo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 subjective | nsubj |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 durachestvo | punct |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 foolishness | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 foolishness | cc |
| 17 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 durachestvo | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 durachestvo | punct |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 subjective | cop |
| 20 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 21 subjective | advmod |
| 21 | subjective | subjective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 subjective | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | durachestvo | the latter case | purely, subjective 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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