Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 96
In several of the Skazkas we find an account of a princess who is won in a similar manner to that described in the story of Helena the Fair.
Who acts: we · What happens: find, win, describe, account · To what, where: account, several Skazkas, princess, similar manner, that, story
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Skazkas | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Skazkas | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Skazkas | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Skazkas | det |
| 5 | Skazkas | Skazka | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obl |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 account | det |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 princess | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 won | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 won | aux:pass |
| 15 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 princess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 manner | det |
| 18 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 manner | amod |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 won | obl |
| 20 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 described | mark |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 described | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 won | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 story | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 described | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Helena | case |
| 27 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 story | nmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Fair | det |
| 29 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Helena | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | we | a account of a princess | the several Skazkas | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic | |||
| 2 | win | present · passive | a princess | a similar manner | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | describe | participle · passive | that | the story of Helena | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | account | a princess | nom account «communication 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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