Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 68
As in other countries, a number of legends are current respecting various animals.
What happens: be, respect · To what, where: various animals
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: 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 countries | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 countries | amod |
| 4 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 current | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 number | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 countries | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 legends | case |
| 9 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 current | cop |
| 11 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | respecting | respect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 current | advcl |
| 13 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | amod |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 respecting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 current | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | as other countries; current property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | respect | gerund | various animals | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus |
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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