Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 152
(Dasent No. 24, "Not a Pin to choose between them.")
What happens: choose
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: 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dasent | punct |
| 2 | Dasent | Dasent | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 2 Dasent | flat |
| 4 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 No. | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pin | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pin | punct |
| 7 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 Pin | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Pin | det |
| 9 | Pin | pin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dasent | appos |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 choose | mark |
| 11 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Pin | acl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 choose | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dasent | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dasent | punct |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dasent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | to-infinitive | between No. | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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