Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 27
In the story which is now about to be quoted will be found a striking personification of Frost.
What happens: be, find, strike · To what, where: story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 story | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 quoted | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 quoted | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 quoted | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 quoted | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 quoted | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 quoted | aux:pass |
| 10 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 story | acl:relcl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 personification | det |
| 15 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 personification | amod |
| 16 | personification | personification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Frost | case |
| 18 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 personification | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | the story not said here | now | about, quote property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | future · passive | the story | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme personification=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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