Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 183

Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, in the hare "the moon sacrificed in the morning," and in the egg the sun. "Zoological Mythology," i. 269.

Who acts: Gubernatis, moon, sun. · What happens: see, sacrifice, mythology · To what, where: hare, egg · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Gubernatis, moon, sun.), 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	Also	also	ADV	_	6 Gubernatis	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	6 Gubernatis	case
3	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Gubernatis	nmod:desc
4	A.	A.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Professor	flat
5	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Professor	flat
6	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sees	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sees	nsubj
9	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Gubernatis	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 duck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duck	det
12	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dawn	det
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duck	nmod:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hare	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 hare	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hare	det
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	obl
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 sacrificed	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moon	det
21	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sacrificed	nsubj
22	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hare	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 morning	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 morning	det
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sacrificed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sacrificed	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 hare	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Mythology	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 egg	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 egg	det
31	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Mythology	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sun.	det
33	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Mythology	nsubj
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Mythology	punct
35	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Mythology	compound
36	Mythology	mythology	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sees	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 i.	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 i.	punct
39	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	36 Mythology	appos
40	269	269	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	39 i.	flat
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Gubernatis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Gubernatis Professor				in the duck the dawn; in the hare	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	sacrifice in a quote	past	the moon	the hare not said here		morning		vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
3	mythology in a quote		the sun.		the egg			tree rules

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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