Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 37
Perhaps the most remarkable among the stories of this class is the following, which comes from Little Russia.
What happens: follow, come · To what, where: Little Russia
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 remarkable | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 remarkable | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 remarkable | advmod |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stories | det |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remarkable | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 class | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 class | det |
| 10 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stories | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 following | aux |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 following | det |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 remarkable | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Russia | case |
| 18 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Russia | amod |
| 19 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · progressive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | present | Little Russia | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from russia=Initial_Location |
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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