Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 2
I had intended to say something about the various golden haired or golden-horned animals which figure in the Skazkas, but it will be sufficient for the present to refer to the notices of them which occur in Prof. de Gubernatis's "Zoological Mythology."
Who acts: I, various horned animals, Skazkas, notices · What happens: intend, say, figure, be, refer, occur · To what, where: de, something, Skazkas, Prof, notices · Speech: someone speaks here
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, various horned animals, Skazkas, notices), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 intended | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 intended | aux |
| 3 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 intended | xcomp |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 say | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 animals | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 haired | amod |
| 11 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 various | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 golden | cc |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 various | conj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 golden | punct |
| 15 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animals | amod |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 something | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 figure | nsubj |
| 18 | figure | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 animals | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Skazkas | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Skazkas | det |
| 21 | Skazkas | Skazkas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 figure | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sufficient | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 sufficient | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sufficient | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sufficient | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sufficient | cop |
| 27 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 intended | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 present | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 present | det |
| 30 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sufficient | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 refer | mark |
| 32 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sufficient | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 notices | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 notices | det |
| 35 | notices | notice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 refer | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 notices | nmod |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 occur | nsubj |
| 39 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 notices | acl:relcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Prof | case |
| 41 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 occur | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 intended | punct |
| 43 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 intended | obl |
| 44 | Gubernatis | Gubernatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Mythology | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 Gubernatis | case |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 Mythology | punct |
| 47 | Zoological | Zoological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Mythology | compound |
| 48 | Mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 de | appos |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 intended | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · perfect | I | de | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | something | about the various horned animals | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 3 | figure | present | the various horned animals | the Skazkas | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | future | Skazkas | for the present; sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | refer | to-infinitive | Skazkas not said here | to the notices of notices | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to notice=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | occur | present | the notices of notices | Prof | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in prof=Location | ||||
| 7 | notice | notices = notice | nom notice «communication 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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