Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 85
Of the stories which especially relate to her the following may be taken as a fair specimen.
What happens: relate, follow, take · To what, where: stories, Yaga
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: 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 relate | obj |
| 5 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 6 relate | advmod |
| 6 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stories | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 relate | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 following | det |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 relate | advcl |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 specimen | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 specimen | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 specimen | amod |
| 17 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | the stories | Yaga | especially property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | take | may · passive | the stories | as a fair specimen | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as specimen=Attribute |
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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