Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 10
Of such stories as these, it will be as well to give a few specimens.
Who acts: attempt · What happens: be, give · To what, where: few specimens
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attempt), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 stories | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 well | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 these | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 stories | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stories | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 well | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 well | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 well | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 well | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 specimens | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 specimens | amod |
| 16 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | attempt | of such stories as these; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | attempt not said here | a few specimens | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Theme |
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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