Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 129
No. 22, a tale of magic.
Who acts: magic · What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magic), 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 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 No. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tale | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 No. | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 magic | case |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 No. | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | magic | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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