Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 178
93-112, and Cox, "Mythology of the Aryan Nations," i. 413)--and to that of the monk who listens to a bird singing in the convent garden, and remains entranced for the space of many years: of which latter legend a Russian version occurs in Chudinsky's collection (No. 17, pp.
Who acts: monk, bird, remains, Russian version · What happens: listen, sing, entrance, occur · To what, where: convent garden, collection
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 (monk, bird, remains, Russian version), 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 | 93-112 | 93-112 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 i. | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 i. | cc |
| 4 | Cox | Cox | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 i. | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mythology | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mythology | punct |
| 7 | Mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Cox | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Nations | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nations | det |
| 10 | Aryan | Aryan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Nations | amod |
| 11 | Nations | Nation | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Mythology | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 i. | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 i. | punct |
| 14 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 93-112 | conj |
| 15 | 413 | 413 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 i. | appos |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 413 | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 entranced | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 entranced | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 that | case |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 entranced | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 monk | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 monk | det |
| 23 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 that | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 listens | nsubj |
| 25 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 monk | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 bird | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 listens | obl |
| 29 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 bird | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 garden | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 garden | det |
| 32 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 garden | compound |
| 33 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 singing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 entranced | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 entranced | cc |
| 36 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 37 entranced | nsubj |
| 37 | entranced | entrance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 i. | parataxis |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 space | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 space | det |
| 40 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 entranced | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 years | case |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 years | amod |
| 43 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 space | nmod |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 52 occurs | punct |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 which | case |
| 46 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 legend | obl |
| 47 | latter | latte | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 48 legend | amod |
| 48 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 occurs | parataxis |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 version | det |
| 50 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 version | amod |
| 51 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 occurs | nsubj |
| 52 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 entranced | parataxis |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 collection | case |
| 54 | Chudinsky | Chudinsky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 collection | nmod:poss |
| 55 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 54 Chudinsky | case |
| 56 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 occurs | obl |
| 57 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 58 No. | punct |
| 58 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 56 collection | appos |
| 59 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 58 No. | flat |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 pp | punct |
| 61 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 occurs | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 93-112 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present | the monk | to a bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | a bird not said here | the convent garden | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 3 | entrance | past | remains | to that; for the space of many years | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | occur | present | a Russian version | Chudinsky's collection | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in collection=Location |
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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