Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 163
The likeness between the Russian story and the "Battle of the Birds" is very striking.
Who acts: likeness · What happens: strike
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: who acts (likeness), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 likeness | det |
| 2 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 striking | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 likeness | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Battle | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Battle | det |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Battle | punct |
| 10 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 story | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Birds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Birds | det |
| 13 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Battle | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Battle | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 striking | aux |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 striking | advmod |
| 17 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 striking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present · progressive | the likeness between the Russian story and the Battle of the Birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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