Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 17
This heart-breaking episode occurs in the folk-tales of many lands.
Who acts: breaking episode, many lands · What happens: break, occur, tell · To what, where: folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (breaking episode, many lands), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 episode | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breaking | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 heart | punct |
| 4 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 episode | amod |
| 5 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 occurs | nsubj |
| 6 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 9 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 folk | punct |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 occurs | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lands | case |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lands | amod |
| 14 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tales | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | occur | present | this breaking episode | the folk tales of many lands | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell | many lands | 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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