Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 121
Several of the Modern Greek stories are very like the skazka mentioned above.
Who acts: Several · What happens: be, mention · To what, where: skazka
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Several), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skazka | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stories | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stories | det |
| 4 | Modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 5 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Several | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 skazka | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 skazka | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 skazka | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skazka | det |
| 11 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 skazka | acl |
| 13 | above | above | ADV | _ | 12 mentioned | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 skazka | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Several of the Modern Greek stories | like the skazka | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mention speech: other | participle | the skazka not said here | above property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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