Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 148
Great stress is laid in the skazkas and legends upon the terrible power of a parent's curse.
Who acts: parent · What happens: lay, curse · To what, where: Great stress, skazkas
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 (parent), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stress | amod |
| 2 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | aux:pass |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 skazkas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skazkas | det |
| 7 | skazkas | skazka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 legends | cc |
| 9 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 skazkas | conj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 power | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 power | amod |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 curse | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 parent | det |
| 16 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 curse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 parent | case |
| 18 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present · passive | Great stress | the skazkas and legends | upon the terrible power of a parent's curse | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skazka=Destination | |||
| 2 | curse | a parent | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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