Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 81
In modern Greece the women attribute all nightly meddling with their spinning to the _Neraides_ (the representatives of the Hellenic Nereids.
Who acts: women attribute, Laumes · What happens: meddle, spin
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 (women attribute, Laumes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Greece | case |
| 2 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Greece | amod |
| 3 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attribute | det |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attribute | compound |
| 6 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Greece | appos |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 meddling | advmod |
| 8 | nightly | nightly | ADV | _ | 9 meddling | advmod |
| 9 | meddling | meddle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 attribute | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 spinning | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spinning | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meddling | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Neraides | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Neraides | det |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Neraides | punct |
| 16 | Neraides | Neraides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 meddling | obl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 Neraides | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 representatives | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 representatives | det |
| 20 | representatives | representative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Neraides | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Nereids | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Nereids | det |
| 23 | Hellenic | Hellenic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Nereids | compound |
| 24 | Nereids | Nereid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 representatives | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Greece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meddle | gerund | the women attribute not said here | with Laumes's spinning; to the Neraides; all, nightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spin | Laumes = laume | nom spinning «act transitive»: poss=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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