Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 26
In the Syriote tale of "The Strigla" (Hahn, No. 65) a princess devours her father and all his subjects.
Who acts: princess, Strigla · What happens: devour, tell · To what, where: father, Syriote tale · 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 (princess, Strigla), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 tale | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 3 | Syriote | Syriote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | compound |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 devours | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Strigla | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Strigla | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Strigla | det |
| 8 | Strigla | Strigla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Strigla | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hahn | punct |
| 11 | Hahn | Hahn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Strigla | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 65 | punct |
| 13 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 14 65 | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Hahn | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hahn | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 devours | nsubj |
| 18 | devours | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 devours | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 subjects | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 subjects | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 24 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 father | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 devours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | present | a princess | Princess's father and No.'s subjects | the Syriote tale of the Strigla | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell | the Strigla | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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