Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 26
In another Russian story of a similar nature Lutonya goes from home in search of some one more foolish than his mother, who has been tricked by a cunning sharper.
Who acts: cunning · What happens: go, trick · To what, where: Russian story, mother
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cunning), 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 story | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 story | det |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nature | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nature | det |
| 7 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nature | amod |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 9 | Lutonya | Lutonya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 nature | appos |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 foolish | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 foolish | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 more | nummod |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 foolish | advmod |
| 19 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 search | acl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 mother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 foolish | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tricked | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 tricked | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 tricked | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 tricked | aux:pass |
| 27 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 mother | acl:relcl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 cunning | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 cunning | det |
| 30 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tricked | obl:agent |
| 31 | sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 cunning | amod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | another Russian story of a similar nature | from home; in search | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | trick | present · perfect · passive | a cunning | Lutonya's mother | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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