Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 140
Benfey (whose version of the story differs at the end from that given by Wilson, "Essays," ii.
Who acts: Benfey · What happens: differ, give · To what, where: end
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benfey), 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 | Benfey | Benfey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 differs | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 version | punct |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 version | nmod:poss |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Benfey | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 version | nmod |
| 8 | differs | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 differs | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 end | nmod |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 end | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Wilson | case |
| 16 | Wilson | Wilson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Essays | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Essays | punct |
| 19 | Essays | essay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 differs | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Essays | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Essays | punct |
| 22 | ii | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 19 Essays | flat |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 differs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | Benfey | at the end from that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | the end from that not said here | by Wilson | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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