Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 29
A somewhat similar Armenian story is quoted by Haxthausen in his Transcaucasia (p. 350 of the English translation).
Who acts: Haxthausen · What happens: quote · To what, where: similar Armenian story, Transcaucasia
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: who acts (Haxthausen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 2 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 3 similar | advmod |
| 3 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 story | amod |
| 4 | Armenian | Armenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | compound |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 quoted | aux:pass |
| 7 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Haxthausen | case |
| 9 | Haxthausen | Haxthausen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoted | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Transcaucasia | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Transcaucasia | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Transcaucasia | Transcaucasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quoted | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 350 | punct |
| 14 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 350 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 350 | 350 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Transcaucasia | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 translation | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 translation | det |
| 18 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 translation | amod |
| 19 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 350 | nmod |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 350 | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 quoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present · passive | Haxthausen | a similar Armenian story | Haxthausen's Transcaucasia | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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