Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 47
One day a Rakshasa appears in the form of a gigantic crane.
Who acts: Rakshasa · What happens: appear, form · To what, where: form, gigantic crane
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 (Rakshasa), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appears | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Rakshasa | det |
| 4 | Rakshasa | Rakshasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appears | nsubj |
| 5 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 form | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appears | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crane | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crane | det |
| 11 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 crane | amod |
| 12 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | a Rakshasa | the form of a gigantic crane | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | |||
| 2 | form | a gigantic crane | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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