Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 221
Afanasief compares the story also with the German tale of "The Little Grey Mannikin," in the "Zeitschrift fuer Deutsche Mythologie," &c., i. pp.
Who acts: Afanasief, Little Grey Mannikin · What happens: compare, tell · To what, where: story, Zeitschrift fuer · 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 (Afanasief, Little Grey Mannikin), 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 | Afanasief | Afanasief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 compares | nsubj |
| 2 | compares | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 compares | obj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 compares | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tale | det |
| 8 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tale | amod |
| 9 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 compares | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Mannikin | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mannikin | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mannikin | det |
| 13 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Mannikin | amod |
| 14 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Mannikin | amod |
| 15 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tale | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mannikin | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mannikin | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fuer | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fuer | det |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 fuer | punct |
| 21 | Zeitschrift | Zeitschrift | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fuer | compound |
| 22 | fuer | fuer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tale | nmod |
| 23 | Deutsche | Deutsche | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 fuer | appos |
| 24 | Mythologie | Mythologie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Deutsche | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 c. | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 c. | punct |
| 27 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 28 c. | cc |
| 28 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fuer | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pp | punct |
| 30 | i. | i. | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 pp | nummod |
| 31 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fuer | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | present | Afanasief | the story | with the German tale of the Little Grey Mannikin in the Zeitschrift fuer and i. pp | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient with tale=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | tell | the Little Grey Mannikin | the Zeitschrift fuer and i. pp | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent in=place |
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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