Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 37
The puppet which plays so important a part in this story is worthy of a special examination.
Who acts: puppet · What happens: play, be · To what, where: part, story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puppet), 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 puppet | det |
| 2 | puppet | puppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worthy | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 plays | nsubj |
| 4 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 puppet | acl:relcl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 important | advmod |
| 6 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plays | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plays | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 worthy | cop |
| 13 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 examination | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 examination | det |
| 16 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 examination | amod |
| 17 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 worthy | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | the puppet | a part | this story | important property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | the puppet | of a special examination; worthy property | 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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