Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 73

The Russian peasant likes a clear statement of facts; the Highlander seems, like Coleridge's Scotch admirer, to find a pleasure in seeing "an idea looming out of the mist."

Who acts: Russian peasant, Highlander, idea · What happens: like, seem, find, see, loom, state · To what, where: clear statement, pleasure, idea, mist, facts · 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 (Russian peasant, Highlander, idea), 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	3 peasant	det
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peasant	amod
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likes	nsubj
4	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statement	det
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 statement	amod
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 facts	case
9	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 statement	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seems	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Highlander	det
12	Highlander	Highlander	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seems	nsubj
13	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likes	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 admirer	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	19 admirer	case
16	Coleridge	Coleridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 admirer	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Coleridge	case
18	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 admirer	compound
19	admirer	admirer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seems	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 find	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 find	mark
22	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seems	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pleasure	det
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 find	obj
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 seeing	mark
26	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 find	advcl
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 idea	punct
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 idea	det
29	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seeing	obl
30	looming	loom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 idea	acl
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 mist	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 mist	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mist	det
34	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looming	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 likes	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 likes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	present	the Russian peasant	a clear statement of facts		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot statement=Theme
2	seem	present	the Highlander			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	find	to-infinitive	the Highlander not said here	a pleasure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic
4	see	gerund	the Highlander not said here	a idea		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	loom in a quote	gerund	a idea not said here		the mist	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mist=Location
6	state			facts		nom statement «communication 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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