Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 82
[37] In another story St. Nicolas's picture is the surety.
Who acts: picture · What happens: be · To what, where: surety
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 (picture), 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 37 | punct |
| 2 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 37 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 37 | nmod |
| 7 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 picture | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Nicolas | Nicolas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 St. | flat |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 St. | case |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surety | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 surety | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 surety | det |
| 13 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 37 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | St.'s picture | the surety | 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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