Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 225
A number of stories about the Pike are referred to by A. de Gubernatis ("Zoolog.
Who acts: A. de · What happens: refer · To what, where: number
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 (A. de), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Pike | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pike | det |
| 7 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stories | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 referred | aux:pass |
| 9 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 referred | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 de | case |
| 12 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 de | compound |
| 13 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 referred | obl |
| 14 | Gubernatis | Gubernatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 de | flat |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Zoolog | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Zoolog | punct |
| 17 | Zoolog | Zoolog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 de | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present · passive | A. de | a number of stories about the Pike | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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