Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 23
Dahl compares it with the Russian _tyurma_, a prison, and the German _Thurm_.
Who acts: Dahl · What happens: compare · To what, where: terem
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 (Dahl), 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 | Dahl | Dahl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 compares | nsubj |
| 2 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 compares | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Russian | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Russian | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 compares | obl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Russian | punct |
| 8 | tyurma | tyurma | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 compares | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 tyurma | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prison | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 prison | det |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tyurma | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 German | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 German | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 German | det |
| 16 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 compares | parataxis |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 German | punct |
| 18 | Thurm | Thurm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 German | vocative |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 German | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | Dahl | terem | with the Russian; tyurma obl | 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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