Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 30
Here and there, it is true, glimpses of snowy landscapes are offered by the skazkas.
Who acts: story, skazkas · What happens: be, offer, glimpse · To what, where: glimpses, snowy landscapes
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: who acts (story, skazkas), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 true | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 there | cc |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 true | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glimpses | punct |
| 9 | glimpses | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 landscapes | case |
| 11 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 landscapes | amod |
| 12 | landscapes | landscape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glimpses | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 offered | aux:pass |
| 14 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 true | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 skazkas | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skazkas | det |
| 17 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 offered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | story | here | true property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | offer | present · passive | the skazkas | glimpses of snowy landscapes | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glimpse | snowy landscapes | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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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