Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 34
In some variants of this story, instead of the three holy elders appear the Saviour, St. Nicholas, and St. Mitrofan.
Who acts: three holy elders, story · What happens: appear, vary · To what, where: Saviour, variants
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 (three holy elders, story), 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 | _ | 3 variants | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 variants | det |
| 3 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appear | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 variants | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appear | punct |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 appear | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elders | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 elders | nummod |
| 12 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 elders | amod |
| 13 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 appear | nsubj |
| 14 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Saviour | det |
| 16 | Saviour | Saviour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 appear | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Nicholas | punct |
| 18 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Saviour | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Mitrofan | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Mitrofan | cc |
| 22 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mitrofan | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Mitrofan | Mitrofan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Saviour | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | present | the three holy elders | the Saviour and Nicholas St. and Mitrofan St. | some variants of this story | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saviour=Theme | |||
| 2 | vary | this story | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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