Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 10
[In a Norse tale in Asbjoernsen's new series, No. 72, mention is made of a Water of Death, as opposed to a Water of Life.
What happens: make, oppose · To what, where: mention
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. 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 | _ | 5 tale | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 tale | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 4 | Norse | norse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tale | amod |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 series | case |
| 7 | Asbjoernsen | Asbjoernsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 series | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Asbjoernsen | case |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 series | amod |
| 10 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 No. | punct |
| 12 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 5 tale | appos |
| 13 | 72 | 72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 No. | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tale | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Water | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Water | det |
| 20 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Death | case |
| 22 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Water | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 opposed | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 opposed | mark |
| 25 | opposed | oppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 made | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Water | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Water | det |
| 28 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opposed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Life | case |
| 30 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Water | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | mention | of a Water of Death | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | oppose | participle | to a Water of Life | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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