Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 177
It was doubtless founded on one of the numerous folk-tales which correspond to the Christian legend of "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus"--itself an echo of an older tale (see Baring Gould, "Curious Myths," 1872, pp.
Who acts: story, numerous folk tales, echo · What happens: be, found, correspond, see, bare · To what, where: story, Gould
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: who acts (story, numerous folk tales, echo), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 doubtless | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 doubtless | cop |
| 3 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 doubtless | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 founded | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tales | det |
| 9 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tales | amod |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 folk | punct |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 correspond | nsubj |
| 14 | correspond | correspond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tales | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 legend | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 legend | det |
| 17 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legend | amod |
| 18 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 correspond | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sleepers | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sleepers | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sleepers | det |
| 22 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Sleepers | nummod |
| 23 | Sleepers | Sleeper | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 legend | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Ephesus | case |
| 25 | Ephesus | Ephesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sleepers | nmod |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sleepers | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 28 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 see | obl |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 echo | det |
| 30 | echo | echo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tale | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 tale | det |
| 33 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 tale | amod |
| 34 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obl |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 see | punct |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 doubtless | parataxis |
| 37 | Baring | bare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 see | xcomp |
| 38 | Gould | Gould | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Baring | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Myths | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Myths | punct |
| 41 | Curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Myths | amod |
| 42 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 38 Gould | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 1872 | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 1872 | punct |
| 45 | 1872 | 1872 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 38 Gould | list |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 pp | punct |
| 47 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 Gould | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 doubtless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | story | doubtless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | found | participle | on one of the numerous folk tales | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on one=Source | |||||
| 3 | correspond | present | the numerous folk tales | to the Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | a echo | story | of a older tale | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | bare | gerund | story not said here | Gould and Curious Myths and pp | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gould=Patient |
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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