Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 85
A balsam in Gaelic tales, in which a "Vessel of Balsam" often occurs.
Who acts: balsam · What happens: occur
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 (balsam), 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 balsam | det |
| 2 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurs | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tales | case |
| 4 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 balsam | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Vessel | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 Vessel | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Vessel | det |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Vessel | punct |
| 11 | Vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 balsam | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Balsam | case |
| 13 | Balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Vessel | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Vessel | punct |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 occurs | advmod |
| 16 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 occurs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | present | a balsam in Gaelic tales | often property | 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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