Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 152
Clearer and fuller than these vague and fragmentary sketches of a "heavenly realm," are the pictures contained in the Russian folk-tales of the underground world.
Who acts: Clearer vague sketches, underground world · What happens: be, contain, tell · To what, where: pictures, Russian folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clearer vague sketches, underground world), 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 | Clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 sketches | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fuller | cc |
| 3 | fuller | full | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Clearer | conj |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 sketches | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 sketches | det |
| 6 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sketches | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fragmentary | cc |
| 8 | fragmentary | fragmentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vague | conj |
| 9 | sketches | sketch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pictures | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 realm | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 realm | det |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 realm | punct |
| 13 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 realm | amod |
| 14 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sketches | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 realm | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 realm | punct |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pictures | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 pictures | det |
| 19 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pictures | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 tales | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tales | det |
| 23 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tales | amod |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 folk | punct |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 contained | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 29 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 world | amod |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 pictures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this Clearer vague sketches of a heavenly realm | the pictures | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | participle | the pictures not said here | the Russian folk tales of the underground world | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tale=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell | the underground world | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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