Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 136
_ The _chulan_ is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c.
Who acts: chulan _ · What happens: be, use · To what, where: kind
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 (chulan _), 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 | _ | 8 kind | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 _ | det |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 4 | chulan | chulan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | compound |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kind | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 closet | case |
| 10 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 12 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 13 used | advmod |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 kind | acl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 storeroom | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 storeroom | det |
| 16 | storeroom | storeroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 used | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 provisions | case |
| 18 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 storeroom | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 c. | punct |
| 20 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 21 c. | cc |
| 21 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | conj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the chulan _ | a kind & c. | of closet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a kind & c. not said here | as a storeroom for provisions; generally property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/136/