Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 47
A variant of this story (from the Chernigof Government)[211] begins by telling how two old people were childless for a long time.
Who acts: variant, two old people, story · What happens: begin, tell, be, vary · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (variant, two old people, story), 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 variant | det |
| 2 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begins | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 story | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 variant | nmod |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Government | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Government | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Government | det |
| 9 | Chernigof | Chernigof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Government | compound |
| 10 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | appos |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Government | punct |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 211 | punct |
| 13 | 211 | 211 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 variant | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 211 | punct |
| 15 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 telling | mark |
| 17 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 begins | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 childless | advmod |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 people | nummod |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 childless | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 childless | cop |
| 23 | childless | childless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 telling | ccomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 childless | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 begins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | a variant of this story | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a variant of this story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | two old people | time | childless property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | vary | this story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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