Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 176
[The "Rip van Winkle" story is too well known to require more than a passing allusion.
What happens: know, require, pass · To what, where: Winkle story, more
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Winkle | punct |
| 4 | Rip | rip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 van | compound |
| 5 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Winkle | compound |
| 6 | Winkle | winkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 story | compound |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Winkle | punct |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 known | advmod |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 require | mark |
| 14 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 known | xcomp |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 require | obj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 allusion | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 allusion | det |
| 18 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 allusion | amod |
| 19 | allusion | allusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 more | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | the Winkle story | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | require | to-infinitive | more | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | pass | gerund | 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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