Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 110
[The principal motive of this story is, of course, the same as that of "The Smith and the Demon," in No. 13 (see above, p. 70).
Who acts: principal motive · What happens: be, see
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (principal motive), 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 | _ | 14 same | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 motive | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 motive | amod |
| 4 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 same | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 motive | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 same | cop |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 same | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 same | case |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 of | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 of | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 same | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Smith | case |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Smith | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Smith | det |
| 20 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 same | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Demon | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Demon | det |
| 23 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Smith | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Demon | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Demon | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 No. | case |
| 27 | No. | No. | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 23 Demon | appos |
| 28 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 No. | flat |
| 29 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 No. | conj |
| 31 | above | above | ADV | _ | 30 see | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 70 | punct |
| 33 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 70 | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 27 No. | list |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 70 | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the principal motive of this story | as that; of the Smith and the Demon; same property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | the principal motive of this story not said here | above property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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