Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 155
[With this story may be compared a multitude of tales in very many languages.
What happens: compare · To what, where: multitude, many languages
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 7 compared | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compared | obl |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 compared | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 compared | aux:pass |
| 7 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 multitude | det |
| 9 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compared | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 multitude | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 languages | case |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 languages | amod |
| 15 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 compared | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | may · passive | a multitude of tales | many languages | with this story | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: multitude=Patient with story=Co-Patient |
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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