Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 110
The Polyphemus story has been so thoroughly investigated by Wilhelm Grimm,[228] that there is no occasion to dwell upon it here.
Who acts: Wilhelm, occasion · What happens: investigate, be, dwell · To what, where: Polyphemus story, occasion
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wilhelm, occasion), 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 | 3 story | det |
| 2 | Polyphemus | Polyphemus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | compound |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 investigated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 investigated | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 investigated | aux:pass |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 investigated | advmod |
| 7 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 8 investigated | advmod |
| 8 | investigated | investigate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Wilhelm | case |
| 10 | Wilhelm | Wilhelm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 investigated | obl |
| 11 | Grimm | Grimm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Wilhelm | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 228 | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 228 | punct |
| 14 | 228 | 228 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Wilhelm | appos |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 228 | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 is | mark |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 investigated | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 occasion | det |
| 20 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 dwell | mark |
| 22 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 occasion | acl |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dwell | obl |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 dwell | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 investigated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | investigate | present · perfect · passive | Wilhelm | the Polyphemus story | thoroughly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | present | no occasion | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | to-infinitive | no occasion not said here | occasion; here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
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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