Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 167
A doll plays an important part in one of Straparola's stories (Night v. Fable 2).
Who acts: doll · What happens: play · To what, where: important part
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 (doll), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doll | det |
| 2 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 part | amod |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plays | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 part | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 10 | Straparola | Straparola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stories | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Straparola | case |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fable | punct |
| 14 | Night | night | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Fable | amod |
| 15 | v. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fable | compound |
| 16 | Fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stories | appos |
| 17 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 Fable | flat |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fable | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | a doll | a important part | in one of Straparola's stories | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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