Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 96
This was Likho (Evil)," says the story, "and around him were seated Zluidni (Woes) and Zhurba (Care)."
Who acts: This, Likho · What happens: be, say, seat · To what, where: Likho, story, evil · 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 (This, Likho), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Likho | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Likho | cop |
| 3 | Likho | Likho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 Evil | punct |
| 5 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Likho | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 Evil | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Likho | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seated | cc |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seated | aux:pass |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 says | conj |
| 19 | Zluidni | Zluidni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 Woes | punct |
| 21 | Woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Zluidni | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 Woes | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Zhurba | cc |
| 24 | Zhurba | Zhurba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Zluidni | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Care | punct |
| 26 | Care | Care | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Zhurba | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Care | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 seated | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | Likho | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Likho | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 3 | seat | past · passive | evil | tree rules |
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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