Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 5
The monster is called in the Servian text an _Ajdaya_, a word meaning a dragon or snake.
Who acts: word · What happens: call, mean · To what, where: monster, dragon · 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 (word), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monster | det |
| 2 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 text | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 text | det |
| 7 | Servian | Servian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 text | compound |
| 8 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Ajdaya | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ajdaya | punct |
| 11 | Ajdaya | Ajdaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 text | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ajdaya | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Ajdaya | appos |
| 16 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 word | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meaning | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 snake | cc |
| 20 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dragon | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the monster | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | mean | gerund | a word not said here | a dragon or snake | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Topic |
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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