Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 168
Professor de Gubernatis identifies the Russian puppet with "the moon, the Vedic Raka, very small, but very intelligent, enclosed in the wooden dress, in the forest of night," "Zoological Mythology," i. 207-8.
Who acts: Professor · What happens: identify, enclose · To what, where: Russian puppet, wooden dress
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 (Professor), 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 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Professor | flat |
| 3 | Gubernatis | Gubernatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Professor | flat |
| 4 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 puppet | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 puppet | amod |
| 7 | puppet | puppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 moon | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 moon | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moon | det |
| 11 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 puppet | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Raka | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Raka | det |
| 14 | Vedic | vedic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Raka | amod |
| 15 | Raka | Raka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 puppet | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 small | punct |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 small | advmod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 identifies | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 intelligent | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 intelligent | cc |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 intelligent | advmod |
| 22 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 identifies | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enclosed | punct |
| 24 | enclosed | enclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 intelligent | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 dress | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dress | det |
| 27 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dress | amod |
| 28 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 enclosed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 forest | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 forest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 forest | det |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 night | case |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forest | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mythology | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mythology | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mythology | punct |
| 38 | Zoological | Zoological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Mythology | compound |
| 39 | Mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forest | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mythology | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mythology | punct |
| 42 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 39 Mythology | conj |
| 43 | 207-8 | 207-8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 42 i. | flat |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 identifies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | Professor | the Russian puppet | with the moon | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent puppet=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | enclose in a quote | participle | Professor not said here | the wooden dress | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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