Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 69
A few of the ghost stories contained in the following pages appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine" for August 1872, and an account of some of the "legends" was given in the "Fortnightly Review" for April 1, 1868.
Who acts: few · What happens: contain, follow, appear, give · To what, where: ghost stories, following pages, Cornhill Magazine, account, Fortnightly Review
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 (few), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 few | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 5 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stories | compound |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 few | nmod |
| 7 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stories | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pages | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pages | det |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 pages | amod |
| 11 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 contained | obl |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Magazine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Magazine | det |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Magazine | punct |
| 16 | Cornhill | Cornhill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Magazine | compound |
| 17 | Magazine | Magazine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Magazine | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 August | case |
| 20 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Magazine | nmod |
| 21 | 1872 | 1872 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Magazine | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 given | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 account | det |
| 25 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 some | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 account | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 legends | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 legends | det |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 legends | punct |
| 31 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 some | nmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 legends | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux:pass |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 appeared | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 Review | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Review | det |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Review | punct |
| 38 | Fortnightly | Fortnightly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Review | compound |
| 39 | Review | Review | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obl |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Review | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 1 | case |
| 42 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 43 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 given | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 1 | punct |
| 45 | 1868 | 1868 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 1 | flat |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | participle | the ghost stories not said here | the following pages | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in page=Location | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | appear | past | a few of the ghost stories | the Cornhill Magazine for August | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in magazine=Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past · passive | a account of some | the Fortnightly Review | for 1 April | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for 1=Asset |
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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