Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 81
[36] The Russian expression is _gol kak sokol_, "bare as a hawk."
Who acts: 36 · What happens: be · To what, where: _ kak sokol
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 (36), 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 36 | punct |
| 2 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 sokol | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 36 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 expression | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 expression | amod |
| 6 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sokol | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sokol | cop |
| 8 | _ | _ | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sokol | amod |
| 9 | gol | gol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kak | compound |
| 10 | kak | kak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sokol | compound |
| 11 | sokol | sokol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 sokol | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bare | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 bare | punct |
| 15 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sokol | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 hawk | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hawk | det |
| 18 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bare | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sokol | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sokol | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | 36 | _ kak sokol | 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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