Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 170

[331] The sentence in italics is a good specimen of the _priskazka_, or preface.

Who acts: 331 · What happens: be · To what, where: good specimen

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 (331), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 331	punct
2	331	331	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 specimen	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 331	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sentence	det
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 specimen	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 italics	case
7	italics	italic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sentence	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 specimen	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 specimen	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 specimen	amod
11	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 priskazka	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 priskazka	det
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 priskazka	punct
15	priskazka	priskazka	X	Foreign=Yes	11 specimen	conj
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 priskazka	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 preface	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 preface	cc
19	preface	preface	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 specimen	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 specimen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	331	a good specimen or preface					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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