Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 7
But that there is a country beyond the sky, inhabited by supernatural beings of magic power and unbounded wealth, is stated in a number of tales of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" type.
Who acts: magic power, known type · What happens: be, inhabit, state, know, tell · To what, where: country, number, Jack · 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 (magic power, known type), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 country | cc |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 is | mark |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 country | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 country | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 inhabited | punct |
| 11 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 country | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 beings | case |
| 13 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beings | amod |
| 14 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 inhabited | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beings | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wealth | cc |
| 19 | unbounded | unbounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wealth | amod |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 power | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 country | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stated | aux:pass |
| 23 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 number | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stated | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tales | case |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 number | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 type | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 type | det |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 known | advmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 well | punct |
| 33 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 type | amod |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Jack | punct |
| 35 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 known | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Beanstalk | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Beanstalk | det |
| 38 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Jack | conj |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Jack | punct |
| 40 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tales | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a country | beyond the sky | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inhabit | participle | by supernatural beings of magic power and unbounded wealth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | state speech: other | present · passive | a country | a number of tales of the known type | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | participle | Jack and the Beanstalk | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jack=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | be | magic power and unbounded wealth | nom being «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | tell | the known type | 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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