Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 37
The following explanation of the skazka (with the exception of the words within brackets) is given by A. de Gubernatis ("Zool.
Who acts: A., skazka · What happens: follow, give, explain, except · To what, where: following explanation, words
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 (A., skazka), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 explanation | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 explanation | amod |
| 3 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 skazka | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skazka | det |
| 6 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 explanation | nmod |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 exception | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 exception | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 exception | det |
| 10 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skazka | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exception | nmod |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 brackets | case |
| 15 | brackets | bracket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 words | nmod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 exception | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux:pass |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 A. | case |
| 20 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 21 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 A. | flat |
| 22 | Gubernatis | Gubernatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 A. | flat |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 Zool | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Zool | punct |
| 25 | Zool | Zool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Gubernatis | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | give | present · passive | A. | the following explanation of the skazka | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | explain | the skazka | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | except | the words within brackets | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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