Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 5
A Water of Life plays an important part in the folk-tales of every land.
Who acts: Water, land · What happens: play, tell · To what, where: important part, folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Water, land), 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 | 2 Water | det |
| 2 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Life | case |
| 4 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Water | nmod |
| 5 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 7 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plays | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tales | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tales | det |
| 11 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 folk | punct |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 part | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 land | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 land | det |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | a Water of Life | a important part | the folk tales of every land | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell | every land | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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