Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 45
He also mentions a similar tale about a giantess existing among the Baltic Kashoubes.
Who acts: Afanasief, giantess · What happens: mention, exist · To what, where: similar tale, Baltic Kashoubes
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Afanasief, giantess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mentions | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 mentions | advmod |
| 3 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tale | det |
| 5 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tale | amod |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mentions | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 giantess | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 giantess | det |
| 9 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | nmod |
| 10 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 giantess | acl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 Kashoubes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kashoubes | det |
| 13 | Baltic | Baltic | PROPN | _ | 14 Kashoubes | compound |
| 14 | Kashoubes | Kashoubes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 existing | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mentions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present | Afanasief | a similar tale | about a giantess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tale=Topic | |||
| 2 | exist | gerund | a giantess not said here | the Baltic Kashoubes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among kashoubes=Location |
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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