Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 3
As a substantive, _likho_ conveys the idea of something malevolent or unfortunate.
Who acts: substantive likho _ · What happens: convey · To what, where: idea
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: who acts (substantive likho _), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 substantive | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 substantive | det |
| 3 | substantive | substantive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 _ | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 substantive | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 substantive | punct |
| 6 | likho | likho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 _ | compound |
| 7 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conveys | nsubj |
| 8 | conveys | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 idea | det |
| 10 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conveys | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 something | case |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 idea | nmod |
| 13 | malevolent | malevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 something | amod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 unfortunate | cc |
| 15 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 malevolent | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 conveys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | present | substantive likho _ | the idea of something | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=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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