Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 72
Like their sisters all over the world, they are, as a general rule, old, hideous, and hateful.
Who acts: beings · What happens: be
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 (beings), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 sisters | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rule | obl |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 world | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sisters | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rule | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rule | cop |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rule | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 rule | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rule | det |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rule | amod |
| 15 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 old | punct |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rule | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hideous | punct |
| 19 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 old | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hateful | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hateful | cc |
| 22 | hateful | hateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 old | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | beings = being | as a general rule; like beings's sisters over the world | 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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