Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 7
See, also, for some other versions of the story, as well as for an attempt to explain it, A. de Gubernatis, "Zoological Mythology," i. 243, 244.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, explain · To what, where: 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: who acts (you), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 also | punct |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 1 See | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 versions | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 versions | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 versions | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 versions | amod |
| 8 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 versions | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attempt | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 attempt | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 attempt | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 attempt | det |
| 18 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 See | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 explain | mark |
| 20 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 attempt | acl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 explain | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 de | punct |
| 23 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 de | compound |
| 24 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 attempt | conj |
| 25 | Gubernatis | Gubernatis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 de | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mythology | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mythology | punct |
| 28 | Zoological | Zoological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mythology | compound |
| 29 | Mythology | mythology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attempt | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mythology | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mythology | punct |
| 32 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 243 | nsubj |
| 33 | 243 | 243 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 Mythology | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 244 | punct |
| 35 | 244 | 244 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 33 243 | flat |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | for some other versions of the story; for a attempt and A. de and Zoological Mythology 243 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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