Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 4
To the latter class belong the Dolls of which mention has already been made, and the Waters of Life and Death of which I am now about to speak.
Who acts: I · What happens: belong, make, be · To what, where: Dolls, 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: who acts (I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 class | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 class | det |
| 3 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 class | amod |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | obl |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dolls | det |
| 7 | Dolls | doll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 belong | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | obl |
| 10 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Dolls | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Waters | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Waters | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Waters | det |
| 18 | Waters | Water | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 belong | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Life | case |
| 20 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Waters | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Death | cc |
| 22 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Life | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 Death | nmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 speak | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 speak | cop |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 speak | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 30 speak | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 speak | mark |
| 30 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Waters | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the Dolls | to the latter class; the Waters of Life and Death of Life and Death obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect · passive | mention | of the Dolls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | now | about, speak property | tree rules |
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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