Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 24
But it seems really to be derived from the Greek +teremnon+, "anything closely shut fast or closely covered, a room, chamber," &c.
Who acts: it · What happens: seem, derive, cover · To what, where: Greek teremnon
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 (it), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 seems | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 seems | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 derived | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 derived | aux:pass |
| 7 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 teremnon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 teremnon | det |
| 10 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 teremnon | amod |
| 11 | + | + | SYM | _ | 12 teremnon | cc |
| 12 | teremnon | teremnon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 derived | obl |
| 13 | + | + | SYM | _ | 12 teremnon | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 anything | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 anything | punct |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 seems | parataxis |
| 17 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 18 shut | advmod |
| 18 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anything | amod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 shut | advmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 covered | cc |
| 21 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 22 covered | advmod |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 shut | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 room | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 anything | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 chamber | punct |
| 27 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 room | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 c. | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 c. | punct |
| 30 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 31 c. | cc |
| 31 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seems | parataxis |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | derive | to-infinitive · passive | the Greek teremnon | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from teremnon=Material | |||||
| 3 | cover in a quote | participle | closely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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