Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 44

Thence comes it that in German _Kamm_ means not only a comb but also (like the Spanish _Sierra_) a mountain ridge or crest.

What happens: come, mean · To what, where: fancy, comb

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: 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	Thence	thence	ADV	_	2 comes	advmod
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 comes	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 means	mark
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 German	case
6	German	German	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 means	obl
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 German	punct
8	Kamm	Kamm	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 German	flat
9	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 German	punct
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 comes	advcl
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 comb	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 comb	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 comb	det
14	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obj
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 ridge	cc
16	also	also	ADV	_	27 ridge	advmod
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 Sierra	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 Sierra	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Sierra	det
20	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Sierra	amod
21	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Sierra	compound
22	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 also	parataxis
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 Sierra	punct
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 Sierra	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ridge	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ridge	compound
27	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comb	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 crest	cc
29	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ridge	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present		fancy				thence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	mean	present		a comb but a mountain ridge or crest				in German	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot comb=Theme in german=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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