Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 58
[A quaint version of the legend on which this story is founded is given by Gervase of Tilbury in his "Otia Imperialia," whence the story passed into the "Gesta Romanorum" (cap. clxii.) and spread widely over mediaeval Europe.
Who acts: Gervase, story · What happens: found, give, pass, spread · To what, where: story, legend, quaint version, Otia, Gesta Romanorum, Europe
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 (Gervase, story), 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 | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 version | det |
| 3 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 version | amod |
| 4 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 legend | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 version | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 founded | obl |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 founded | aux:pass |
| 13 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 legend | acl:relcl |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux:pass |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Gervase | case |
| 17 | Gervase | Gervase | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Tilbury | case |
| 19 | Tilbury | Tilbury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Gervase | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Otia | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Otia | nmod:poss |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Otia | punct |
| 23 | Otia | Otia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 24 | Imperialia | Imperialia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Otia | flat |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 passed | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 passed | punct |
| 27 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 passed | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 story | det |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 passed | nsubj |
| 30 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 given | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 Romanorum | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Romanorum | det |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Gesta | punct |
| 34 | Gesta | Gesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Romanorum | compound |
| 35 | Romanorum | Romanorum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 passed | obl |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 Romanorum | punct |
| 37 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 38 cap | punct |
| 38 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Romanorum | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 cap | punct |
| 40 | clxii | clxii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 cap | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 cap | punct |
| 42 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 38 cap | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 spread | cc |
| 44 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 passed | conj |
| 45 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 44 spread | advmod |
| 46 | over | over | ADP | _ | 48 Europe | case |
| 47 | mediaeval | mediaeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Europe | nmod:desc |
| 48 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 spread | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | present · passive | this story | the legend | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source | ||||
| 2 | give | present · passive | Gervase of Tilbury | a quaint version of the legend | youth's Otia | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | pass | participle | the story | the Gesta Romanorum | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into romanorum=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | spread | past | the story not said here | Europe mediaeval | widely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over europe=Location |
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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