Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 63
In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka.
Who acts: scene · What happens: be, resemble · To what, where: lykewake, this
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 (scene), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 is | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 intelligible | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 intelligible | det |
| 5 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 intelligible | amod |
| 6 | intelligible | intelligible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 9 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Highland | compound |
| 10 | Highland | Highland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tales | compound |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 intelligible | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 one | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 scene | det |
| 16 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 is | nsubj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 resembles | nsubj |
| 18 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 19 resembles | advmod |
| 19 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 scene | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lykewake | det |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lykewake | punct |
| 22 | lykewake | lykewake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 resembles | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 lykewake | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 this | case |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 resembles | obl |
| 26 | skazka | skazka | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 resembles | dep |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a scene | there | in one of the least intelligible of the Highland tales | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location | |||
| 2 | resemble | present | a scene | the lykewake | this | somewhat property | tree rules |
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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