Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 168
His part is played by St. Nicholas in the legend of "The Priest with the Greedy Eyes," for which, and for further comment on the story, see Chap.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: play, see · To what, where: part, legend, Chap
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 (Nicholas), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 part | nmod:poss |
| 2 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | aux:pass |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Nicholas | case |
| 6 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 legend | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 legend | det |
| 10 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Priest | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Priest | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Priest | det |
| 14 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 legend | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Eyes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Eyes | det |
| 17 | Greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Eyes | amod |
| 18 | Eyes | Eye | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 legend | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 played | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 comment | case |
| 26 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 comment | amod |
| 27 | comment | comment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 story | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 story | det |
| 30 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 comment | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 comment | punct |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 played | advcl |
| 33 | Chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present · passive | Nicholas St. | chort's part | the legend of the Priest with the Greedy Eyes | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary which=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Nicholas St. not said here | Chap | for further comment on the story | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chap=Stimulus |
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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