Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 53
[249] Everyone knows how frequent are the allusions to good and bad fortune in Oriental fiction, so that there is no occasion to do more than allude to the stories in which they occur--one of the most interesting of which is that of Vira-vara in the "Hitopadesa" (chap. iii.
Who acts: Everyone, occasion, allusions · What happens: know, be, do, allude, occur · To what, where: frequent allusions, more, stories, iii
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 (Everyone, occasion, allusions), 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 | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 2 | 249 | 249 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Everyone | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 249 | punct |
| 4 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 frequent | advmod |
| 7 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 allusions | amod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 allusions | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 allusions | det |
| 10 | allusions | allusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knows | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fortune | case |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fortune | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bad | cc |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 good | conj |
| 15 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 allusions | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fiction | case |
| 17 | Oriental | oriental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fiction | amod |
| 18 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fortune | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 is | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 knows | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 occasion | det |
| 25 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 occasion | acl |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 allude | mark |
| 30 | allude | allude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 more | acl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 stories | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stories | det |
| 33 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 allude | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 occur | obl |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 occur | nsubj |
| 37 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 stories | acl:relcl |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 one | punct |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 occasion | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 interesting | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 interesting | det |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 43 interesting | advmod |
| 43 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 one | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 iii | obl |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 60 iii | cop |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 60 iii | mark |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 vara | case |
| 49 | Vira | Vira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 vara | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 Vira | punct |
| 51 | vara | vara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 iii | obl |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 Hitopadesa | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 Hitopadesa | det |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 Hitopadesa | punct |
| 55 | Hitopadesa | Hitopadesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 vara | nmod |
| 56 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 55 Hitopadesa | punct |
| 57 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 58 chap | punct |
| 58 | chap | chap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 Hitopadesa | appos |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 vara | punct |
| 60 | iii | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 43 interesting | obl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the frequent allusions | to good fortune in Oriental fiction | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no occasion | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | no occasion not said here | more | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | allude | infinitive | to the stories | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | occur | present | allusions = allusion | the stories | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | iii | of Vira vara in the Hitopadesa | 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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