Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 95
Here is a story, by way of example, of a most gloomy nature.
Who acts: story · What happens: be
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 (story), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 example | case |
| 9 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nature | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nature | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nature | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 gloomy | advmod |
| 14 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nature | amod |
| 15 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 story | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a story and a gloomy nature | here property | 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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