Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 73
There is no great richness of invention manifested in the stories which deal with the outwitting of evil spirits.
Who acts: great richness, stories · What happens: be, manifest, deal · To what, where: invention
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 (great richness, stories), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 richness | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 richness | amod |
| 5 | richness | richness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 invention | case |
| 7 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 richness | nmod |
| 8 | manifested | manifest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 invention | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stories | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stories | det |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 manifested | obl:agent |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 deal | nsubj |
| 13 | deal | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stories | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 outwitting | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 outwitting | det |
| 16 | outwitting | outwitting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deal | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spirits | case |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spirits | amod |
| 19 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 outwitting | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no great richness of invention | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | manifest | participle | invention not said here | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | deal | present | the stories | with the outwitting of evil spirits | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with outwitting=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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