Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 80
In two other Russian versions of the same story, the sister escapes by natural means.
Who acts: sister, natural · What happens: escape, mean · To what, where: two other Russian versions
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 (sister, natural), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 versions | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 versions | nummod |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 versions | amod |
| 4 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 versions | amod |
| 5 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 escapes | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 versions | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 versions | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sister | det |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 escapes | nsubj |
| 13 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 means | mark |
| 15 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 escapes | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 escapes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present | the sister | two other Russian versions of the same story | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | natural | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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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