Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 31
For a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany, see "Songs of the Russian People," pp.
Who acts: you, Russian People · What happens: see, describe, sing · To what, where: Songs, Rusalka
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 (you, Russian People), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 description | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 description | det |
| 3 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rusalka | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rusalka | det |
| 6 | Rusalka | Rusalka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 description | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Vodyany | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Vodyany | det |
| 9 | Vodyany | Vodyany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rusalka | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 description | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Songs | punct |
| 13 | Songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 People | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 People | det |
| 16 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 People | amod |
| 17 | People | People | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Songs | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pp | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 pp | punct |
| 20 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Songs | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | Songs of the Russian People and pp | for a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | describe | the Rusalka and the Vodyany | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sing in a quote | the Russian People | nom song «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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