Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 102
As a specimen of its numerous variants we may take the opening of a skazka respecting the origin of brandy.
Who acts: we, skazka, specimen · What happens: take, respect, vary · To what, where: opening, origin
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, skazka, specimen), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 specimen | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 specimen | det |
| 3 | specimen | specimen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 variants | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 variants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 variants | amod |
| 7 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 specimen | nmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opening | det |
| 12 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 skazka | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 skazka | det |
| 15 | skazka | skazka | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | nmod |
| 16 | respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 skazka | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 origin | det |
| 18 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 respecting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 brandy | case |
| 20 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 origin | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | may | we | the opening of a skazka | as a specimen of specimen's numerous variants | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent opening=Theme as specimen=Attribute | |||
| 2 | respect | gerund | a skazka not said here | the origin of brandy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer origin=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | vary | specimen | nom variant «event intransitive»: 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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