Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 106
The Russian stories give a very clear account of the operation performed by the vampire on his victims.
Who acts: Russian stories · What happens: give, perform, account · To what, where: clear account, operation
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian stories), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 2 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 account | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 clear | advmod |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 account | amod |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 operation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 operation | det |
| 11 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 account | nmod |
| 12 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 operation | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 vampire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vampire | det |
| 15 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 performed | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 victims | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 victims | nmod:poss |
| 18 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 vampire | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | the Russian stories | a clear account of the operation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | ||||
| 2 | perform | participle | the operation not said here | by the vampire on murony's victims | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | account | the operation | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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