Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 43
A comb does not at first sight appear to resemble a mountain, but its indented outline may have struck the fancy of many primitive peoples as being a likeness to a serrated mountain range.
Who acts: comb · What happens: not do, appear, resemble, indent, strike, be · To what, where: sight, mountain, indented outline, many primitive peoples
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comb), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comb | det |
| 2 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 does | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 sight | advmod |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appear | obl |
| 8 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 resemble | mark |
| 10 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 appear | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 resemble | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 struck | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 outline | nmod:poss |
| 16 | indented | indent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 outline | amod |
| 17 | outline | outline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 struck | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 struck | aux |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 appear | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fancy | det |
| 22 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 peoples | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 peoples | amod |
| 25 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 peoples | amod |
| 26 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fancy | nmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 likeness | case |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 likeness | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 likeness | det |
| 30 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 range | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 range | det |
| 33 | serrated | serrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 range | amod |
| 34 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 range | compound |
| 35 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | present | a comb | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | appear | present | sight | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | resemble | to-infinitive | a mountain | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | indent | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | strike | may · perfect · passive | comb's indented outline | to a serrated mountain range | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient fancy=Result | ||||
| 6 | is | gerund | as a likeness | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | serrate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | fancy | many primitive peoples | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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