Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 76
[257] Compare the English nursery rhyme addressed to the lady-bird:
Who acts: 257 · What happens: compare, address · To what, where: English nursery rhyme
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 (257), 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 | _ | 4 Compare | punct |
| 2 | 257 | 257 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Compare | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 257 | punct |
| 4 | Compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rhyme | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rhyme | amod |
| 7 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rhyme | compound |
| 8 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Compare | obj |
| 9 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rhyme | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bird | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lady | punct |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 addressed | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 Compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | infinitive | 257 | the English nursery rhyme | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient | ||||
| 2 | address | participle | the English nursery rhyme not said here | to the lady bird | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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