Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 17
Whether as prince or peasant, he alters but very little in his wanderings among the Aryan races of Europe.
Who acts: hero, Europe · What happens: alter, wander, race · To what, where: wanderings
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, Europe), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 prince | mark |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alters | advcl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 peasant | cc |
| 5 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prince | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 alters | nsubj |
| 8 | alters | alter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 little | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 little | advmod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 alters | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 wanderings | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 alters | obl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 races | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 races | det |
| 17 | Aryan | Aryan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 races | amod |
| 18 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 alters | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Europe | case |
| 20 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 races | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 alters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alter | present | hero | hero's wanderings | among the Aryan races of Europe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | wander | hero | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | race | Europe | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/17/