Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 131
The similarity of the two words may have led to a confusion of ideas.
What happens: lead, confuse · To what, where: similarity, confusion, ideas
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: 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 | 2 similarity | det |
| 2 | similarity | similarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 words | nummod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 similarity | nmod |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | aux |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 confusion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 confusion | det |
| 12 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 ideas | case |
| 14 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 confusion | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | may · perfect · passive | the similarity of the two words | a confusion of ideas | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to confusion=Destination | ||||
| 2 | confuse | ideas | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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