Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 35
About St. George many stories are told, and still more ballads (if we may be allowed to call them so) are sung.
Who acts: more ballads, we · What happens: tell, allow, call, sing · To what, where: many stories, we, ballads, more ballads · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (more ballads, we), 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 George | case |
| 2 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 George | nmod:desc |
| 3 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stories | amod |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ballads | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ballads | cc |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 ballads | amod |
| 12 | ballads | ballad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 allowed | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 allowed | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 allowed | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 allowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ballads | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 call | mark |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 allowed | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 call | advmod |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 allowed | punct |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sung | aux:pass |
| 25 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | many stories | about George St. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | allow a condition, not said to happen | may · passive | more ballads not said here | we | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | ballads = ballad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | present · passive | more ballads | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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