Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 18
[125] It may not be amiss to trace it through some of its forms.
Who acts: 125, episode · What happens: not be, trace, form · To what, where: episode, some
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 (125, episode), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 125 | punct |
| 2 | 125 | 125 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 amiss | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 125 | punct |
| 4 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 amiss | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 amiss | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 amiss | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 amiss | cop |
| 8 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 trace | mark |
| 10 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 amiss | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trace | obj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 trace | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 forms | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 amiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | may | 125 | amiss property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trace | to-infinitive | 125 not said here | episode | some | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | episode | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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