Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 90
Bernhard Schmidt's excellent work is full of examples which prove how intimately they are connected.
Who acts: excellent work, examples, Bernhard · What happens: be, prove, connect, work · To what, where: examples
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 (excellent work, examples, Bernhard), 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 | Bernhard | Bernhard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Schmidt | Schmidt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Bernhard | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Bernhard | case |
| 4 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | amod |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 full | cop |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 examples | case |
| 9 | examples | example | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 full | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 prove | nsubj |
| 11 | prove | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 examples | acl:relcl |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 intimately | advmod |
| 13 | intimately | intimately | ADV | _ | 16 connected | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 connected | aux:pass |
| 16 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 prove | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bernhard's excellent work | of examples; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | present | examples | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | connect | present · passive | examples = example | intimately property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | work | Bernhard | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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