Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 130
It exists only in the false conceptions of his character which his family or his neighbors have formed.
Who acts: signification, family · What happens: exist, form, conceive · To what, where: false conceptions, character
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, family), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 exists | nsubj |
| 2 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 conceptions | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 conceptions | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 conceptions | det |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conceptions | amod |
| 7 | conceptions | conception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 exists | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 character | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 character | nmod:poss |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conceptions | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 formed | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 family | nmod:poss |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | nsubj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 neighbors | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 16 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 family | conj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | aux |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 character | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 exists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | signification | the false conceptions of durachestvo's character | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in conception=Location | ||||
| 2 | form | present · perfect | durachestvo's family or durachestvo's neighbors | durachestvo's character | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conceive | durachestvo's character | nom conception «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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