Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 10
The popular tales which were current in former days were at first printed on sheets or strips of this substance, whence the term _lubochnuiya_ came to be given to all such productions of the cheap press, even after paper had taken the place of bark.
Who acts: popular tales, sheets · What happens: be, print, come, give, take, produce · To what, where: popular tales, such productions, paper, cheap press
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (popular tales, sheets), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tales | det |
| 2 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | amod |
| 3 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 current | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 current | cop |
| 6 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tales | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 8 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 days | amod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 current | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 printed | aux:pass |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 first | case |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 printed | obl |
| 13 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root | |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 sheets | case |
| 15 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 came | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 strips | cc |
| 17 | strips | strip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sheets | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 substance | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 substance | det |
| 20 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strips | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lubochnuiya | punct |
| 22 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 lubochnuiya | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 term | det |
| 24 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lubochnuiya | compound |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 term | punct |
| 26 | lubochnuiya | lubochnuiya | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 substance | appos |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 lubochnuiya | punct |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 printed | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 given | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 given | aux:pass |
| 31 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 came | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 productions | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 productions | det |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 productions | amod |
| 35 | productions | production | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 given | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 press | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 press | det |
| 38 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 press | amod |
| 39 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 productions | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 taken | punct |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 45 taken | advmod |
| 42 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 45 taken | mark |
| 43 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 taken | aux |
| 45 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 given | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 place | det |
| 47 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 taken | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 bark | case |
| 49 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 place | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 printed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the popular tales | day | current property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | past · passive | the popular tales | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | sheets or strips of this substance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive · passive | sheets or strips of this substance not said here | all such productions of the cheap press | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to production=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect · passive | paper | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | |||||
| 6 | produce | the cheap press | nom production «act 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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