Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 79
"The Pike," observes Afanasief, "is a fish of great repute in northern mythology."
Who acts: Pike · What happens: observe, be · To what, where: Afanasief, fish
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pike), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fish | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pike | det |
| 3 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fish | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 observes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 observes | punct |
| 6 | observes | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Pike | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 observes | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 observes | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 observes | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fish | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 repute | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 repute | amod |
| 15 | repute | repute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fish | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mythology | case |
| 17 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mythology | amod |
| 18 | mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repute | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fish | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | present | the Pike not said here | Afanasief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent afanasief=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the Pike | a fish | of great repute in northern mythology | 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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