Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 13
There is a very curious Servian story of two brothers, one of whom is industrious and unlucky, and the other idle and prosperous.
Who acts: curious Servian story · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curious Servian 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 curious | advmod |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 6 | Servian | Servian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 story | compound |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brothers | nummod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 story | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brothers | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 industrious | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 industrious | cop |
| 16 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 unlucky | cc |
| 18 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 industrious | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 idle | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 idle | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 idle | amod |
| 23 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 prosperous | cc |
| 25 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 idle | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a curious Servian story of two brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | industrious property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | 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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