Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 23
_Ladno_ means "well," "propitiously," &c., also "in tune."
Who acts: Ladno _ · What happens: mean · To what, where: c.
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ladno _), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 2 | Ladno | Ladno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 _ | compound |
| 3 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 6 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 c. | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 propitiously | punct |
| 10 | propitiously | propitiously | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 c. | punct |
| 13 | & | & | CCONJ | _ | 14 c. | cc |
| 14 | c. | c. | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tune | punct |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 tune | advmod |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tune | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tune | case |
| 19 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 c. | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Ladno _ | c. | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c.=Topic |
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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