Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 52
They are, for the most part, the daughters of the Morskoi Tsar, or Water King--a being who plays an important part in Slavonic popular fiction.
Who acts: maidens, most part · What happens: be · To what, where: Slavonic popular fiction
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 (maidens, most part), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 part | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 part | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 part | amod |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 daughters | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughters | det |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 part | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Tsar | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tsar | det |
| 13 | Morskoi | Morskoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tsar | compound |
| 14 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 daughters | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 King | cc |
| 17 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | compound |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tsar | appos |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 plays | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 plays | det |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 plays | cop |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 plays | nsubj |
| 23 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 part | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 part | det |
| 25 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 part | amod |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plays | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 fiction | case |
| 28 | Slavonic | Slavonic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 fiction | compound |
| 29 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fiction | amod |
| 30 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plays | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | maidens = maiden | for the most part; the daughters of the Morskoi Tsar nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | the most part | Slavonic popular fiction | play 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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