Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 53
On a story of this kind Goethe founded his weird ballad of "Der Todtentanz."
What happens: found · To what, where: weird ballad, story
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 story | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Goethe | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Goethe | nsubj |
| 6 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Goethe | amod |
| 7 | Goethe | Goethe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ballad | nmod:poss |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ballad | amod |
| 11 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founded | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Der | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Der | punct |
| 14 | Der | Der | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ballad | nmod |
| 15 | Todtentanz | Todtentanz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Der | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 founded | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 founded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | past | Goethe's weird ballad of Der | a story of kind Goethe | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ballad=Theme on story=Source |
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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