Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 276
The discovery of the money in the warlock's coffin seems an improbable incident.
Who acts: discovery · What happens: seem, discover · To what, where: improbable incident, money
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 (discovery), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 discovery | det |
| 2 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 money | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 discovery | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 coffin | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warlock | det |
| 8 | warlock | warlock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 warlock | case |
| 10 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 money | nmod |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 incident | det |
| 13 | improbable | improbable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 incident | amod |
| 14 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seems | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the discovery of the money in the warlock's coffin | a improbable incident | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme incident=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | discover | the money in the warlock's coffin | nom discovery «act 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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