Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 67
This story is evidently a combination of two widely differing tales.
Who acts: story · What happens: be, differ · To what, where: combination
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 (story), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 combination | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 combination | cop |
| 4 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 6 combination | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 combination | det |
| 6 | combination | combination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tales | nummod |
| 9 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 10 differing | advmod |
| 10 | differing | differ | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tales | amod |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 combination | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 combination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this story | a combination | of two differing tales; evidently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | differ | gerund | widely property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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