Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 123
There is also a provincial word, _kostit'_, meaning to revile or scold.
Who acts: provincial word · What happens: be, mean, revile, scold
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: who acts (provincial word), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 5 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | amod |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kostit | punct |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 kostit | punct |
| 9 | kostit | kostit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 word | appos |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 kostit | punct |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 kostit | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 meaning | punct |
| 13 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 word | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 revile | mark |
| 15 | revile | revile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 meaning | xcomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 scold | cc |
| 17 | scold | scold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 revile | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a provincial word | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a provincial word not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | revile not said to happen | to-infinitive | a provincial word not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scold | infinitive | a provincial word not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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