Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 133
The _Zhar-Ptitsa_, or Fire-Bird, which plays so important a part in this story, is worthy of special notice.
Who acts: Zhar Ptitsa · What happens: play, be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zhar Ptitsa), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ptitsa | det |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zhar | punct |
| 3 | Zhar | Zhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ptitsa | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Zhar | punct |
| 5 | Ptitsa | Ptitsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 worthy | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ptitsa | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Bird | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Bird | cc |
| 9 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bird | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fire | punct |
| 11 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ptitsa | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 plays | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 plays | nsubj |
| 14 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ptitsa | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 important | advmod |
| 16 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plays | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 important | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 story | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ptitsa | punct |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 worthy | cop |
| 24 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 notice | case |
| 26 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 notice | amod |
| 27 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 worthy | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | the Zhar Ptitsa or Fire Bird | important property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Zhar Ptitsa or Fire Bird | of special notice; worthy 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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