Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 38
And it is, as it were, a photograph of the Russian story-teller that I have tried to produce, and not an ideal portrait.
Who acts: photograph · What happens: be, try, produce · To what, where: photograph, Russian story teller
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 (photograph), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 photograph | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 photograph | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 photograph | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 photograph | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 photograph | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 photograph | det |
| 10 | photograph | photograph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 teller | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 teller | det |
| 13 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 teller | amod |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 teller | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 story | punct |
| 16 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 photograph | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tried | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | aux |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 teller | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 produce | mark |
| 22 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tried | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 portrait | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 portrait | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 portrait | advmod |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 portrait | det |
| 27 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 portrait | amod |
| 28 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 photograph | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | photograph | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | photograph | a photograph and a ideal portrait | of the Russian story teller | tree rules | |||
| 3 | try | present · perfect · passive | the Russian story teller | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | produce not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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