Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 37
There is a well-known Indian story about four suitors for the hand of one girl.
Who acts: known Indian story · What happens: be, know
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 (known Indian story), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 known | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 story | amod |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 suitors | case |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 suitors | nummod |
| 11 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 story | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hand | det |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suitors | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 girl | nummod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a known Indian story about four suitors for the hand of one girl | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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