Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 2
[224] The adjective _likhoi_ has two opposite meanings, sometimes signifying what is evil, hurtful, malicious, &c., sometimes what is bold, vigorous, and therefore to be admired.
What happens: have, signify, be, admire · To what, where: 224
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 224 | punct |
| 2 | 224 | 224 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 has | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 224 | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 adjective | det |
| 5 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 224 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 224 | punct |
| 7 | likhoi | likhoi | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 224 | dep |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 meanings | nummod |
| 11 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 meanings | amod |
| 12 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 signifying | punct |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 signifying | advmod |
| 15 | signifying | signify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 has | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 evil | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 evil | cop |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 signifying | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurtful | punct |
| 20 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evil | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 malicious | punct |
| 22 | malicious | malicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evil | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 c. | punct |
| 24 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 25 c. | cc |
| 25 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 has | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 what | punct |
| 27 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 what | advmod |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 c. | appos |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 bold | cop |
| 30 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 vigorous | punct |
| 32 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bold | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 admired | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 admired | cc |
| 35 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 38 admired | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 admired | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 admired | aux:pass |
| 38 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 bold | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | 224 the adjective | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | signify | gerund | sometimes property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | evil property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | is | present | bold property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 8 | admire | to-infinitive · passive | therefore property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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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