Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I., sentence 3
The Folk-tale in general, and the Skazka in particular--Relation of Russian Popular Tales to Russian Life--Stories about Courtship, Death, Burial and Wailings for the Dead--Warnings against Drink, Jokes about Women, Tales of Simpletons--A rhymed Skazka and a Legend 15
Who acts: Simpletons · What happens: rhyme, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpletons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tale | det |
| 2 | Folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Folk | punct |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 general | case |
| 6 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tale | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Skazka | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Skazka | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Skazka | det |
| 10 | Skazka | Skazka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tale | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 particular | case |
| 12 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Skazka | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Relation | punct |
| 14 | Relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Skazka | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Tales | case |
| 16 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Tales | amod |
| 17 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Tales | amod |
| 18 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Relation | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Life | case |
| 20 | Russian | Russian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Life | amod |
| 21 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Tales | nmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 Stories | punct |
| 23 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Tales | conj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 Courtship | case |
| 25 | Courtship | courtship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Stories | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Death | punct |
| 27 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Skazka | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Burial | punct |
| 29 | Burial | Burial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Skazka | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Wailings | cc |
| 31 | Wailings | wailing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Skazka | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 Dead | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Dead | det |
| 34 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Wailings | nmod |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 Warnings | punct |
| 36 | Warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Skazka | appos |
| 37 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 Drink | case |
| 38 | Drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Warnings | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Jokes | punct |
| 40 | Jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Skazka | conj |
| 41 | about | about | ADP | _ | 42 Women | case |
| 42 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 Jokes | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Tales | punct |
| 44 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 Women | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Simpletons | case |
| 46 | Simpletons | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 Tales | nmod |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 50 Skazka | punct |
| 48 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 Skazka | det |
| 49 | rhymed | rhyme | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 50 Skazka | amod |
| 50 | Skazka | Skazka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Skazka | conj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Legend | cc |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 Legend | det |
| 53 | Legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Skazka | conj |
| 54 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 53 Legend | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rhyme | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | tell | Simpletons | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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