Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 39
_Kukolka_), a word designating any sort of puppet or other figure representing either man or beast.
Who acts: word · What happens: designate, represent, sort · To what, where: sort, man, puppet
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 (word), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kukolka | punct |
| 2 | Kukolka | Kukolka | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kukolka | punct |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kukolka | punct |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 word | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kukolka | appos |
| 8 | designating | designate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 word | acl |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 designating | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 puppet | case |
| 12 | puppet | puppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 figure | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 figure | amod |
| 15 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 puppet | conj |
| 16 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 designating | conj |
| 17 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 18 man | cc:preconj |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 representing | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 beast | cc |
| 20 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kukolka | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | designate | gerund | a word not said here | any sort of puppet or other figure | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | gerund | a word not said here | man or beast | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sort | puppet or other figure | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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