Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 3
And now I will bring this chapter to a close with the following weird story of
Who acts: I · What happens: bring, follow · To what, where: chapter, close
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bring | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bring | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | aux |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 chapter | det |
| 7 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 close | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 close | det |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bring | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 story | amod |
| 14 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 story | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | I | this chapter | a close | now | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chapter=Theme to close=Destination | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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