Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 189
_ _Steklo_ means a glass, or a pane of glass.
Who acts: Steklo · What happens: mean · To what, where: glass
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 (Steklo), 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 | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 3 | Steklo | Steklo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Steklo | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pane | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 pane | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pane | det |
| 11 | pane | pane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 glass | case |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pane | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Steklo | a glass | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Topic |
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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