Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 54
I am fairer than thou, Than thy brother, the bright Moon, Than thy sister, the moving star [Venus?].
Who acts: I · What happens: be, move
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fairer | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fairer | cop |
| 3 | fairer | fair | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 thou | case |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 fairer | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Than | punct |
| 7 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fairer | obl |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Than | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Moon | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Moon | det |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Moon | amod |
| 13 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Than | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Than | punct |
| 15 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Than | conj |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fairer | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 star | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 star | det |
| 20 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 star | amod |
| 21 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sister | conj |
| 22 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 23 Venus | punct |
| 23 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 star | appos |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 Venus | punct |
| 25 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 23 Venus | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | than thou; Than and the bright Moon and Than obl; thy sister and the moving star obl; fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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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