Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 123
[177] "Tales of the West Highlands," ii. p. 15.
Who acts: West Highlands · What happens: tell · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (West Highlands), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 177 | punct |
| 2 | 177 | 177 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 177 | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tales | punct |
| 5 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 177 | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Highlands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Highlands | det |
| 8 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Highlands | compound |
| 9 | Highlands | Highlands | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tales | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tales | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 177 | punct |
| 12 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 2 177 | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 177 | punct |
| 14 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 15 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 177 | list |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 177 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell in a quote | the West Highlands | 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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