Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 69
The special characteristics of the Saint and the Prophet are fairly contrasted in the following story.
What happens: contrast, follow · To what, where: special characteristics, following story
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 characteristics | det |
| 2 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 characteristics | amod |
| 3 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 contrasted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Saint | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Saint | det |
| 6 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 characteristics | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Prophet | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prophet | det |
| 9 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Saint | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 contrasted | aux:pass |
| 11 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 12 contrasted | advmod |
| 12 | contrasted | contrast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 story | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 story | amod |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contrasted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 contrasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrast | present · passive | the special characteristics of the Saint and the Prophet | the following story | fairly property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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