Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 63
But it is necessary to explain that references to Grimm are as a general rule to the "Kinder- und Hausmaerchen," 9th ed.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, explain, reference · To what, where: Grimm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 necessary | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 necessary | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 necessary | cop |
| 4 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rule | amod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 explain | mark |
| 6 | explain | explain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 necessary | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 references | nsubj |
| 8 | references | reference | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 explain | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Grimm | case |
| 10 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 references | obl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rule | cop |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 rule | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rule | det |
| 14 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rule | amod |
| 15 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 und | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 und | det |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 und | punct |
| 19 | Kinder | Kinder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 und | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kinder | punct |
| 21 | und | und | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rule | nmod |
| 22 | Hausmaerchen | Hausmaerchen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 und | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ed | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ed | punct |
| 25 | 9th | 9th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 26 ed | compound |
| 26 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rule | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | reference | present | that | Grimm | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | as a necessary general rule and 9th ed; to the Kinder und | tree rules |
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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