Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 89
In a Little-Russian variant of this story, quoted by Afanasief,[226] (III. p. 137) a man, who often hears evil or misfortune (_likho_) spoken of, sets out in search of it.
Who acts: man, story · What happens: quote, hear, speak, set out, vary, search · To what, where: Russian variant, evil, likho, search · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, story), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 variant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 variant | det |
| 3 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Russian | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Little | punct |
| 5 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 variant | amod |
| 6 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 variant | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quoted | punct |
| 11 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 variant | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Afanasief | case |
| 13 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 quoted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 226 | punct |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 226 | punct |
| 16 | 226 | 226 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Afanasief | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 226 | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 III | punct |
| 19 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 13 Afanasief | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 p. | punct |
| 21 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 variant | appos |
| 22 | 137 | 137 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 p. | flat |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 p. | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 variant | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hears | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 hears | nsubj |
| 28 | often | often | ADV | _ | 29 hears | advmod |
| 29 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | acl:relcl |
| 30 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hears | obj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 misfortune | cc |
| 32 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 evil | conj |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 likho | punct |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 likho | punct |
| 35 | likho | likho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 evil | conj |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 likho | punct |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 likho | punct |
| 38 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 likho | acl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 spoken | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sets | punct |
| 41 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 hears | conj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 sets | compound:prt |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 search | case |
| 44 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sets | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 search | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 variant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | participle | a Russian variant of this story not said here | by Afanasief III | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | a man | evil or misfortune and likho | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | participle | likho not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | set out | present | a man not said here | search of search | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | vary | this story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | search | search | nom search «act 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/89/