Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 107
But this is not always the case, as may be learnt from one of the best of the skazkas in which he plays a leading part, the history of--
Who acts: this, centre · What happens: not be, learn, play, lead · To what, where: case, leading part, skazkas
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, centre), 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 | _ | 7 case | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 case | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 case | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 case | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 case | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 case | det |
| 7 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learnt | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 learnt | mark |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 learnt | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 learnt | aux:pass |
| 12 | learnt | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 case | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 learnt | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 best | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 best | det |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 skazkas | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 skazkas | det |
| 20 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 best | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 plays | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 plays | nsubj |
| 24 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 skazkas | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 part | det |
| 26 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 part | amod |
| 27 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 plays | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 history | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 history | det |
| 30 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 part | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 history | case |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 case | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this | the case | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | learn | may · passive | this not said here | from one of the best | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: from one=Source | ||||
| 3 | play | present | centre | a leading part and the history | the skazkas | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 4 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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