Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 23
"And the copeck taper, what's that for?"
Who acts: copeck taper · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (copeck taper), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 that | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 taper | det |
| 4 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taper | compound |
| 5 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 that | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 that | obj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 that | cop |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the copeck taper | for that | tree rules |
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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