Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 40
[Stories about serpent-spouses are by no means uncommon, but I can find no parallel to the above so far as the termination is concerned.
Who acts: Stories, I, termination · What happens: be, find · To what, where: parallel
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stories, I, termination), 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 Stories | punct |
| 2 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 spouses | case |
| 4 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spouses | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 serpent | punct |
| 6 | spouses | spouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Stories | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 means | cop |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 no | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 means | obl |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 means | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 parallel | det |
| 18 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 above | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 above | det |
| 21 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 find | obl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 far | advmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 find | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 concerned | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 termination | det |
| 26 | termination | termination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 concerned | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 concerned | cop |
| 28 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 far | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Stories about serpent spouses | by no; mean, uncommon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | can | I | no parallel | to the above; far property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | the termination | concerned 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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