Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 109
The Esthonian tale of the "Wife-murderer" (Loewe's "Ehstnische Maerchen," No. 20) is remarkably--not to say suspiciously--like that French story of Blue Beard which has so often made our young blood run cold.
Who acts: Esthonian tale, French story, young blood, Wife murderer · What happens: be, not say, have, make, run, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esthonian tale, French story, young blood, Wife murderer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | Esthonian | Esthonian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | compound |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remarkably | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 murderer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 murderer | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 murderer | punct |
| 7 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 murderer | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wife | punct |
| 9 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tale | nmod |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 murderer | punct |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 Loewe | punct |
| 12 | Loewe | Loewe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 murderer | appos |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Loewe | case |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ehstnische | punct |
| 15 | Ehstnische | Ehstnische | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Loewe | conj |
| 16 | Maerchen | Maerchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Loewe | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 No. | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 No. | punct |
| 19 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 12 Loewe | appos |
| 20 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 No. | flat |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 Loewe | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 remarkably | cop |
| 23 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 27 say | advmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 say | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | suspiciously | suspiciously | ADV | _ | 27 say | advmod |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 story | punct |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 story | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 story | det |
| 32 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 story | amod |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 say | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Beard | case |
| 35 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Beard | amod |
| 36 | Beard | Beard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 story | nmod |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 has | nsubj |
| 38 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 story | parataxis |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 made | advmod |
| 40 | often | often | ADV | _ | 41 made | advmod |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 has | xcomp |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 blood | nmod:poss |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 blood | amod |
| 44 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 run | nsubj |
| 45 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 made | conj |
| 46 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 run | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Esthonian tale of the Wife murderer | remarkably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | suspiciously property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | that French story of Blue Beard | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | that French story of Blue Beard not said here | often property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | run | present | our young blood | cold property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tell | the Wife murderer | nom tale «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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