Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 88
Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a skazka, who said:
What happens: come, imagine, say · To what, where: skazka · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 beautiful | advmod |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 imagined | mark |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 imagined | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 imagined | aux:pass |
| 13 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 beautiful | advcl |
| 14 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 imagined | advmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 skazka | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 skazka | det |
| 18 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | in a lady; presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lady=Location | ||||
| 2 | imagine | can · passive | anywhere property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a skazka | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in skazka=Manner |
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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