Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 40
A somewhat similar story, only the palaces are in the air, occurs in Asbjoernsen's "Ny Samling," No. 72)--Campbell's "Tales of the West Highlands," No. 58--Schleicher's "Litauische Maerchen," No. 38--The Polish story, Wojcicki, Book iii.
Who acts: palaces, similar story · What happens: be, occur · To what, where: air, Asbjoernsen
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 (palaces, similar story), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 2 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 3 similar | advmod |
| 3 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 occurs | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 air | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 palaces | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palaces | det |
| 8 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 air | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 air | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
| 14 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Asbjoernsen | case |
| 16 | Asbjoernsen | Asbjoernsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 occurs | obl |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Asbjoernsen | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ny | punct |
| 19 | Ny | Ny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Asbjoernsen | appos |
| 20 | Samling | Samling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ny | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 No. | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 No. | punct |
| 23 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 16 Asbjoernsen | appos |
| 24 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 No. | flat |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 No. | punct |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 Tales | punct |
| 27 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Tales | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Campbell | case |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Tales | punct |
| 30 | Tales | Tale | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Asbjoernsen | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Highlands | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Highlands | det |
| 33 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Highlands | compound |
| 34 | Highlands | Highlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Tales | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 No. | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 No. | punct |
| 37 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 16 Asbjoernsen | appos |
| 38 | 58 | 58 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 37 No. | flat |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 Litauische | punct |
| 40 | Schleicher | Schleicher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Litauische | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 Schleicher | case |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 Litauische | punct |
| 43 | Litauische | Litauische | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Asbjoernsen | conj |
| 44 | Maerchen | Maerchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Litauische | flat |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 No. | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 No. | punct |
| 47 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 43 Litauische | appos |
| 48 | 38 | 38 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 47 No. | flat |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 52 story | punct |
| 50 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 story | det |
| 51 | Polish | polish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 story | amod |
| 52 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 Litauische | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 Wojcicki | punct |
| 54 | Wojcicki | Wojcicki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Asbjoernsen | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 Book | punct |
| 56 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Asbjoernsen | conj |
| 57 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 56 Book | flat |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the palaces | the air | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | occur | present | a similar story | Asbjoernsen and Schleicher's Litauische and the Polish story and Wojcicki and Book | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in asbjoernsen=Location |
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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