Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 104
There is one other of those personifications of natural forces which play an active part in the Russian tales, about which a few words may be said.
Who acts: one, natural forces · What happens: be, play, say · To what, where: active part, Russian tales, few words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, natural forces), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 personifications | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 personifications | det |
| 7 | personifications | personification | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 other | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forces | case |
| 9 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forces | amod |
| 10 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 personifications | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 play | nsubj |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 forces | acl:relcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 play | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tales | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tales | det |
| 18 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tales | amod |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 play | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 said | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 words | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 said | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | aux:pass |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tales | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | present | natural forces | a active part | the Russian tales | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | may · passive | a few words | about the Russian tales | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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