Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 39
But instead of doing this, before passing on to the more important groups of the Skazkas, I will quote, as this chapter's final illustrations of the Russian story-teller's art, an "animal story" and a "legend."
Who acts: I, chapter · What happens: do, pass on, quote, illustrate · To what, where: this, important groups, art
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 (I, chapter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 quote | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 doing | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 quote | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 doing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 passing | punct |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 passing | mark |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 doing | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 passing | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 groups | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 groups | det |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 important | advmod |
| 13 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 groups | amod |
| 14 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Skazkas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Skazkas | det |
| 17 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 groups | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doing | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 quote | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 quote | aux |
| 21 | quote | quote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 illustrations | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 illustrations | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 chapter | det |
| 25 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 illustrations | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 chapter | case |
| 27 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 illustrations | amod |
| 28 | illustrations | illustration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 quote | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 art | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 teller | det |
| 31 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 teller | amod |
| 32 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 teller | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 story | punct |
| 34 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 art | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 teller | case |
| 36 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 illustrations | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 story | punct |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 story | det |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 story | punct |
| 40 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 story | compound |
| 41 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 illustrations | appos |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 story | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 legend | cc |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 legend | det |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 legend | punct |
| 46 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 illustrations | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 quote | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 quote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | I not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | pass on | gerund | I not said here | the important groups of the Skazkas | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to group=Destination | ||||
| 3 | quote speech: other | future | I | as this chapter's final illustrations of the Russian story teller's art and a legend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | illustrate | this chapter | the Russian story teller's art | nom illustration «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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