Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 97
In the West of Europe the fatal inquisitiveness is more frequently ascribed to a woman.
What happens: ascribe · To what, where: fatal inquisitiveness, West
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: 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 West | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 West | det |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ascribed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Europe | case |
| 5 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 West | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inquisitiveness | det |
| 7 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 inquisitiveness | amod |
| 8 | inquisitiveness | inquisitiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ascribed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ascribed | aux |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 ascribed | advmod |
| 11 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 ascribed | advmod |
| 12 | ascribed | ascribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ascribed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ascribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascribe | present · passive | the fatal inquisitiveness | the West of Europe | to a woman; frequently property | tree rules |
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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