Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 114
In Russia an aspen stake is selected for that purpose, but in some places one made of thorn is preferred.
What happens: select, make, prefer · To what, where: aspen stake, Russia, places
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Russia | case |
| 2 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 selected | obl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stake | det |
| 4 | aspen | aspen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stake | amod |
| 5 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 selected | aux:pass |
| 7 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 purpose | det |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 selected | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 places | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 places | det |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 places | flat |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 selected | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thorn | case |
| 19 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 preferred | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 preferred | aux:pass |
| 21 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 made | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | present · passive | a aspen stake | Russia | for that purpose | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | participle | some places | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | prefer | present · passive | of thorn | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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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