Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 42
Of these, the story of "The Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas," will serve as a good specimen.
What happens: serve
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 serve | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 these | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Elijah | case |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Elijah | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Elijah | det |
| 9 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Elijah | compound |
| 10 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Nicholas | cc |
| 12 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Elijah | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 these | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 serve | aux |
| 17 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 specimen | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 specimen | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 specimen | amod |
| 21 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 serve | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | of these; as a good specimen | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as specimen=Attribute |
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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