Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 15
Of several of these--such as the Domovoy or House-Spirit, the Rusalka or Naiad, and the Vodyany or Water-Sprite--I have written at some length elsewhere,[263] and therefore I will not at present quote any of the stories in which they figure.
Who acts: I, stories · What happens: write, figure · To what, where: Rusalka, length, stories
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stories), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Spirit | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 these | case |
| 4 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 several | nmod |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 Spirit | punct |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 Spirit | case |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 such | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Spirit | det |
| 9 | Domovoy | Domovoy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Spirit | compound |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 House | cc |
| 11 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Domovoy | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Spirit | punct |
| 13 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Rusalka | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Rusalka | det |
| 16 | Rusalka | Rusalka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Spirit | conj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 Naiad | cc |
| 18 | Naiad | Naiad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rusalka | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Vodyany | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Vodyany | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Vodyany | det |
| 22 | Vodyany | Vodyany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Rusalka | conj |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Water | cc |
| 24 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Vodyany | conj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sprite | punct |
| 26 | Sprite | Sprite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Vodyany | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 written | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 written | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 written | aux |
| 30 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Rusalka | acl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 length | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 length | det |
| 33 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 written | obl |
| 34 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 30 written | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 263 | punct |
| 36 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 37 263 | punct |
| 37 | 263 | 263 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Spirit | list |
| 38 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 37 263 | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 quote | cc |
| 40 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 46 quote | advmod |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 quote | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 quote | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 quote | advmod |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 quote | case |
| 45 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 quote | amod |
| 46 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 263 | conj |
| 47 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 quote | nsubj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 stories | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 stories | det |
| 50 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 any | nmod |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 which | case |
| 52 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 54 figure | obl |
| 53 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 figure | nsubj |
| 54 | figure | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 stories | acl:relcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 263 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · perfect | I | the Rusalka or Naiad and the Vodyany or Water and Sprite not said here | some length | elsewhere property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rusalka=Theme | ||
| 2 | figure | present | stories = story | the stories | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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