Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 143
We will now return to the stories in which Harm or Misery figures as a living agent.
Who acts: We · What happens: return
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 return | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 return | advmod |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stories | det |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 return | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Harm | case |
| 9 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 10 Harm | det |
| 10 | Harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stories | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 figures | cc |
| 12 | Misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 figures | compound |
| 13 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Harm | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 agent | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 agent | det |
| 16 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 agent | amod |
| 17 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | future | We | now | to the stories in which Harm or Misery figures result; as a living agent | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to story=Result |
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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