Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 61
We will now turn from the forms under which popular fiction has embodied some of the ideas connected with Fortune and Misfortune, to another strange group of figures--the personifications of certain days of the week.
Who acts: We · What happens: turn, embody, connect · To what, where: forms, popular fiction, ideas
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turn | advmod |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 forms | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forms | det |
| 7 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 embodied | obl |
| 10 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fiction | amod |
| 11 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embodied | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 embodied | aux |
| 13 | embodied | embody | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 forms | acl:relcl |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 embodied | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ideas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ideas | det |
| 17 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ideas | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Fortune | case |
| 20 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 connected | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Misfortune | cc |
| 22 | Misfortune | Misfortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Fortune | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 group | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 group | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 group | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 group | amod |
| 27 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 figures | case |
| 29 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 group | nmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 personifications | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 personifications | det |
| 32 | personifications | personification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 figures | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 days | case |
| 34 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 days | amod |
| 35 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 personifications | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 week | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 week | det |
| 38 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 days | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | future | We | the forms | now | to another strange group of figures and the personifications of certain days of the week result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from form=Initial_State to group=Result | ||
| 2 | embody | present · perfect · passive | popular fiction | the forms | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | connect | participle | the ideas not said here | with Fortune and Misfortune | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with fortune=Co-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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