Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 8
But the supernatural beings which people the fairy-land peculiar to each race, though closely resembling each other in many respects, differ conspicuously in others.
Who acts: land peculiar, race, supernatural beings · What happens: people, resemble, differ · To what, where: each, many respects, others
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 (land peculiar, race, supernatural beings), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 differ | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beings | det |
| 3 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beings | amod |
| 4 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 differ | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beings | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peculiar | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 land | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fairy | punct |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peculiar | compound |
| 11 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 race | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 race | det |
| 14 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peculiar | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 resembling | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 resembling | mark |
| 17 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 18 resembling | advmod |
| 18 | resembling | resemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 race | acl:relcl |
| 19 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 18 resembling | obj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 each | fixed |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 respects | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 respects | amod |
| 23 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 resembling | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beings | punct |
| 25 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | conspicuously | conspicuously | ADV | _ | 25 differ | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 others | case |
| 28 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 differ | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | people | the land peculiar to each race | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | resemble | gerund | each race not said here | each | many respects | closely property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | differ | present | the supernatural beings and which people | others | conspicuously property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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