Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 141
Not being able to preserve the assonance, I have dropped the greater part of his title.
Who acts: I, No. · What happens: not be, preserve, drop, title · To what, where: assonance, greater part
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 (I, No.), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 able | advmod |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 able | cop |
| 3 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 preserve | mark |
| 5 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 able | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 assonance | det |
| 7 | assonance | assonance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 preserve | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dropped | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 dropped | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dropped | aux |
| 11 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 able | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dropped | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 title | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 title | nmod:poss |
| 17 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 part | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | preserve | to-infinitive | the assonance | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assonance=Beneficiary | |||||
| 3 | drop | present · perfect | I | the greater part of No.'s title | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 4 | title | No. | nom title «communication transitive»: poss=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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