Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 71
Is that the proper sort of employment for me?
Who acts: proper sort · What happens: be, sort · To what, where: employment
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proper sort), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 me | cop |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 me | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sort | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sort | amod |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 me | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 employment | case |
| 7 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 me | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the proper sort of employment | for me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sort | employment | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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