Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 161
For specimens of the Russian "Beast-Epos" the reader is referred (as I have stated in the preface) to Professor de Gubernatis's "Zoological Mythology."
Who acts: I · What happens: refer, state · To what, where: reader, Zoological Mythology, preface
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 specimens | case |
| 2 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 referred | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Epos | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Epos | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Epos | amod |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Epos | punct |
| 7 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Epos | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Epos | punct |
| 9 | Epos | Epos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 specimens | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Epos | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reader | det |
| 12 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 referred | aux:pass |
| 14 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 stated | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 stated | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stated | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stated | aux |
| 19 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 referred | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 preface | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 preface | det |
| 22 | preface | preface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stated | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 stated | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Mythology | case |
| 25 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Gubernatis | nmod:desc |
| 26 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Professor | flat |
| 27 | Gubernatis | Gubernatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mythology | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Gubernatis | case |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Zoological | punct |
| 30 | Zoological | Zoological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mythology | compound |
| 31 | Mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 referred | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present · passive | the reader | for specimens of the Russian Beast Epos | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present · perfect | I | Gubernatis Professor's Zoological Mythology | the preface | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mythology=Recipient |
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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