Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 73
In one instance, the following excuse is offered for their conduct.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: follow, offer, conduct · To what, where: following excuse, one instance
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 (brothers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instance | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 instance | nummod |
| 3 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 instance | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 excuse | det |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 excuse | amod |
| 7 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 offered | aux:pass |
| 9 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 conduct | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 12 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | the following excuse | one instance | for brothers's conduct goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for conduct=Goal | |||
| 3 | conduct | brothers = brother | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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