Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 56
313-321) contain a valuable investigation of Kulish's version of this story, which he compares with the romance of "The Knight of the Swan."
Who acts: 313-321, valuable investigation, Knight · What happens: contain, compare, investigate, romance · To what, where: valuable investigation, version
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 (313-321, valuable investigation, Knight), 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 | 313-321 | 313-321 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 contain | nsubj |
| 2 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 313-321 | punct |
| 3 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 investigation | det |
| 5 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 investigation | amod |
| 6 | investigation | investigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contain | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 version | case |
| 8 | Kulish | Kulish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 version | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Kulish | case |
| 10 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 investigation | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 story | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 version | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 compares | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 compares | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 compares | nsubj |
| 17 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 investigation | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 romance | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 romance | det |
| 20 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compares | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Knight | case |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Knight | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Knight | det |
| 24 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 romance | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Swan | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Swan | det |
| 27 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Knight | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contain | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | 313-321 | a valuable investigation of Kulish's version of this story | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot investigation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | compare | present | a valuable investigation of Kulish's version of this story | with the romance of the Knight of the Swan | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with romance=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | investigate | Kulish's version of this story | nom investigation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | romance | the Knight of the Swan | nom romance «state 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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