Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 137
In a variant of this story found in the Tula Government we have, in the place of woe, _Nuzhda_, or Need.
Who acts: we, story · What happens: find, have, vary · To what, where: story, place, variant
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, 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 | _ | 3 variant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 variant | det |
| 3 | variant | variant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 variant | nmod |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 story | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Government | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Government | det |
| 10 | Tula | Tula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Government | compound |
| 11 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl:agent |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 woe | case |
| 19 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Nuzhda | punct |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Nuzhda | punct |
| 22 | Nuzhda | Nuzhda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 place | appos |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Nuzhda | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Need | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Need | cc |
| 26 | Need | Need | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Nuzhda | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | this story not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | we | the place of woe | a variant of this story | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | |||
| 3 | vary | this story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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