Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 8
Among other things they chatted about was this--which of them all was the boldest?
Who acts: spinners, other things · What happens: chat, be · To what, where: other things, this
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinners, other things), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 things | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 things | amod |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chatted | nsubj |
| 5 | chatted | chat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 things | acl:relcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 this | advmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 this | cop |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 things | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 boldest | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 boldest | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 boldest | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 boldest | det |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boldest | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boldest | det |
| 16 | boldest | bold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 things | acl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 boldest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chat speech: other | past | spinners = spinner | other things not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | other things | of spinners = spinner; bold property | tree rules |
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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