Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 77
[160] Her appearance is that of a tall, gaunt hag, with dishevelled hair.
Who acts: appearance · 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 (appearance), 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 | _ | 2 160 | punct |
| 2 | 160 | 160 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 160 | punct |
| 4 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hag | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hag | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hag | mark |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hag | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hag | det |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hag | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tall | punct |
| 12 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hag | amod |
| 13 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 160 | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hair | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hair | case |
| 16 | dishevelled | dishevelled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hag | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 160 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | name's appearance | of a tall gaunt hag and dishevelled hair | 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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