Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 111
Several very curious Gaelic versions of the story are given by Mr. Campbell ("Tales of the West Highlands," No. 41, ii.
Who acts: Campbell, West Highlands · What happens: give, tell · To what, where: Several curious Gaelic versions · 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 (Campbell, West Highlands), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 versions | amod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 curious | advmod |
| 3 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 versions | amod |
| 4 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 versions | amod |
| 5 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 versions | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Campbell | case |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Campbell | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tales | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Tales | punct |
| 16 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Campbell | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Highlands | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Highlands | det |
| 19 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Highlands | compound |
| 20 | Highlands | Highlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Tales | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 No. | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 No. | punct |
| 23 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 16 Tales | nmod |
| 24 | 41 | 41 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 No. | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ii | punct |
| 26 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 24 41 | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · passive | Campbell Mr. and Tales of the West Highlands No. | Several curious Gaelic versions of the story | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell in a quote | the West Highlands | 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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