Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 45
On a story of this kind was doubtless founded the legend handed down to us by Appuleius of Cupid and Psyche.
Who acts: doubtless founded legend · What happens: be, found, hand down · To what, where: story, us
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 (doubtless founded legend), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doubtless | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doubtless | cop |
| 8 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 legend | amod |
| 9 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 legend | amod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 legend | det |
| 11 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 handed | nsubj |
| 12 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 handed | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 handed | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Appuleius | case |
| 17 | Appuleius | Appuleius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 handed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Cupid | case |
| 19 | Cupid | Cupid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Appuleius | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Psyche | cc |
| 21 | Psyche | Psyche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Appuleius | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a story of this kind | doubtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | found | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hand down | past | the doubtless founded legend | us | by Appuleius of Cupid and Psyche | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to we=Destination |
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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