Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 104
The following abridgment of the legend of "The Poor Widow,"[435] may be taken as a specimen of the Russian tales of this class.
Who acts: class · What happens: follow, take, tell · To what, where: abridgment · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (class), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 abridgment | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 abridgment | case |
| 3 | abridgment | abridgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 legend | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 legend | det |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abridgment | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Widow | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Widow | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Widow | det |
| 10 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Widow | amod |
| 11 | Widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legend | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 abridgment | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 435 | punct |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 435 | punct |
| 15 | 435 | 435 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 abridgment | appos |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 435 | punct |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 specimen | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 specimen | det |
| 22 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tales | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tales | det |
| 25 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tales | amod |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 specimen | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 class | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 class | det |
| 29 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | take | may · passive | the abridgment of the legend of the Poor Widow | as a specimen of the Russian tales of this class | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as specimen=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | tell | this class | nom tale «communication 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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