Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 15
The editors of these "chap-book skazkas" belonged to the pre-scientific period, and had a purely commercial object in view.
Who acts: editors · What happens: belong, have · To what, where: commercial object, view
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 (editors), 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 | 2 editors | det |
| 2 | editors | editor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 skazkas | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 skazkas | det |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 skazkas | punct |
| 6 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 book | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 chap | punct |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 skazkas | compound |
| 9 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 belonged | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 skazkas | punct |
| 11 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 period | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 period | det |
| 14 | pre-scientific | pre-scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 period | amod |
| 15 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belonged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 belonged | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 object | det |
| 20 | purely | purely | ADV | _ | 21 commercial | advmod |
| 21 | commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 object | amod |
| 22 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 view | case |
| 24 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 object | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | the editors | to the pre-scientific period | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the editors not said here | a commercial object | view | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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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