Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 84
There may, however, be a mythological explanation of the behavior of the two elder brothers.
Who acts: mythological explanation, behavior · What happens: be, explain
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 (mythological explanation, behavior), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 be | expl |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 may | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 be | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 explanation | det |
| 8 | mythological | mythological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 explanation | amod |
| 9 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 be | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 behavior | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 behavior | det |
| 12 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 explanation | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 brothers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brothers | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 brothers | nummod |
| 16 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brothers | amod |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 behavior | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | may | a mythological explanation of the behavior of the two elder brothers | there | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | explain | the behavior of the two elder brothers | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=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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