Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 148
[232] In the following story, however, the gloomy figure of Woe has been painted in a less than usually sombre tone.
What happens: follow, paint, figure · To what, where: gloomy figure, sombre tone, Woe
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 232 | punct |
| 2 | 232 | 232 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 232 | punct |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 232 | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 painted | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 painted | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 however | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 figure | det |
| 12 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 figure | amod |
| 13 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Woe | case |
| 15 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 figure | nmod |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 painted | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 painted | aux:pass |
| 18 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 232 | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 tone | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tone | det |
| 21 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 25 tone | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 less | fixed |
| 23 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 24 sombre | advmod |
| 24 | sombre | sombre | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tone | amod |
| 25 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 painted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 232 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | paint | present · perfect · passive | the gloomy figure of Woe | a sombre tone | however property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tone=Destination | |||
| 3 | figure | Woe | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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