Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 51
The story in which Frost so singularly figures is one which is known in many lands, and of which many variants are current in Russia.
Who acts: story, many variants · What happens: be, know · To what, where: one, many lands, Russia
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 (story, many variants), 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 | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Frost | case |
| 4 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 5 Frost | det |
| 5 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 singularly | advmod |
| 7 | singularly | singularly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 figures | amod |
| 8 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Frost | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lands | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lands | amod |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 known | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 current | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 current | cc |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 22 variants | det |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 variants | amod |
| 22 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 current | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 current | cop |
| 24 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Russia | case |
| 26 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 current | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the story in which Frost singularly figures | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | many lands | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | which many variants | Russia | current property | tree rules |
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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