Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 44
In one of the variants of the Water King story,[149] the seizer of the drinking kings' beard is not called the _Morskoi Tsar_ but _Chudo Morskoe_, a Water Chudo, whose name recalls to mind the Chudo Yudo we have already met with.
Who acts: name, we, King story · What happens: not call, recall, mind, meet, vary · To what, where: one, Chudo Yudo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, we, King story), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 variants | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 variants | det |
| 5 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 8 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 story | compound |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 variants | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 149 | punct |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 149 | punct |
| 13 | 149 | 149 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 149 | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 seizer | det |
| 16 | seizer | seizer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 beard | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kings | det |
| 19 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kings | compound |
| 20 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beard | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 kings | case |
| 22 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seizer | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 called | advmod |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Tsar | det |
| 27 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Tsar | compound |
| 28 | Morskoi | Morskoi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Tsar | compound |
| 29 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 29 Tsar | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 Chudo | cc |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Chudo | punct |
| 33 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | conj |
| 34 | Morskoe | Morskoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Chudo | flat |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 Chudo | punct |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Chudo | punct |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 Chudo | det |
| 38 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Chudo | compound |
| 39 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Chudo | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 recalls | punct |
| 41 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 42 name | nmod:poss |
| 42 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 recalls | nsubj |
| 43 | recalls | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Chudo | acl:relcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 mind | mark |
| 45 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 recalls | ccomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 Yudo | det |
| 47 | Chudo | Chudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Yudo | compound |
| 48 | Yudo | Yudo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 mind | obj |
| 49 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 met | nsubj |
| 50 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 52 met | aux |
| 51 | already | already | ADV | _ | 52 met | advmod |
| 52 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 mind | ccomp |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 met | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call | present · passive | one of the variants of the King story | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | recall | present | name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mind | to-infinitive | name not said here | the Chudo Yudo | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | present · perfect | we | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | vary | the King story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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