Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 68
The best Russian work on the subject is Barsof's "Prichitaniya Syevernago Kraya," Moscow, 1872.
Who acts: best Russian work · What happens: be · To what, where: Prichitaniya Syevernago
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 (best Russian work), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 work | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 work | amod |
| 3 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 work | amod |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Syevernago | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 subject | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 subject | det |
| 7 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Syevernago | cop |
| 9 | Barsof | Barsof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Syevernago | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Barsof | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Prichitaniya | punct |
| 12 | Prichitaniya | Prichitaniya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Syevernago | compound |
| 13 | Syevernago | Syevernago | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | Kraya | Kraya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Syevernago | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Moscow | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Moscow | punct |
| 17 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Syevernago | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1872 | punct |
| 19 | 1872 | 1872 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Moscow | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Syevernago | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the best Russian work on the subject | Barsof's Prichitaniya Syevernago | tree rules |
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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