Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 121
454-5, where _skohsl_ is supposed to mean a forest-sprite, also p. 954.)
What happens: suppose, mean · To what, where: skohsl _, forest sprite
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 454-5 | 454-5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 supposed | advmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 _ | punct |
| 5 | skohsl | skohsl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 _ | compound |
| 6 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 supposed | aux:pass |
| 8 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 454-5 | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 mean | mark |
| 10 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 supposed | xcomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sprite | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sprite | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 forest | punct |
| 14 | sprite | sprite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mean | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 p. | punct |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 p. | advmod |
| 17 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sprite | nmod |
| 18 | 954 | 954 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 p. | flat |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 supposed | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 454-5 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · passive | skohsl _ | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | to-infinitive | a forest sprite p. | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprite=Topic |
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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