Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 129
_ It is the thunder, rather than the lightning, which the Russian peasants look upon as the destructive agent in a storm.
Who acts: word, lightning · What happens: be, look · To what, where: thunder
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 (word, lightning), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 thunder | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thunder | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thunder | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thunder | det |
| 5 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lightning | punct |
| 7 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 lightning | cc |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 rather | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lightning | det |
| 10 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thunder | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 look | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 look | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 peasants | det |
| 14 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 peasants | amod |
| 15 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 look | nsubj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lightning | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 agent | case |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 agent | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 agent | det |
| 20 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 agent | amod |
| 21 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 storm | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 storm | det |
| 24 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 agent | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thunder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | word | the thunder | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | the lightning | upon the destructive agent in a storm | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon agent=Theme |
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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