Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 118
Their supernatural foe is a small gnome with a very long beard.
Who acts: supernatural foe · What happens: be · To what, where: small gnome
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supernatural foe), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 foe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 foe | amod |
| 3 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gnome | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gnome | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gnome | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gnome | amod |
| 7 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 beard | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beard | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beard | amod |
| 12 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gnome | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gnome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hero's supernatural foe | a small gnome | with a long beard | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/118/