Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 20
Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,[5] giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales.
Who acts: several articles · What happens: appear, give · To what, where: 5, some, accounts
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 (several articles), 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 years | case |
| 2 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | obl |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 articles | amod |
| 5 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | aux |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 some | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 appeared | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 periodicals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 periodicals | det |
| 12 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 periodicals | amod |
| 13 | periodicals | periodical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 some | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 appeared | obl |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 appeared | advcl |
| 19 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 giving | obj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 translations | cc |
| 21 | translations | translation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 accounts | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 some | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 translations | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Tales | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tales | det |
| 26 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Tales | amod |
| 27 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Tales | amod |
| 28 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 some | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present · perfect | several articles | 5 | some | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in some=Location | ||
| 2 | give | gerund | several articles not said here | accounts or translations of some | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
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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