Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 15
By way of a conclusion to this chapter--which might be expanded indefinitely, so numerous are the stories of the class of which it treats--we will take the moral tale of "The Gossip's Bedstead."
Who acts: we, teller, Bedstead · What happens: expand, be, treat, take, tell · To what, where: chapter, numerous stories, moral tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, teller, Bedstead), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 way | case |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 conclusion | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 conclusion | det |
| 5 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 way | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chapter | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 chapter | det |
| 8 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conclusion | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 expanded | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 expanded | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 expanded | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 expanded | aux:pass |
| 13 | expanded | expand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 chapter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | indefinitely | indefinitely | ADV | _ | 13 expanded | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stories | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 numerous | advmod |
| 17 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stories | amod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 stories | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stories | det |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 way | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 class | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 class | det |
| 23 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stories | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 treats | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 treats | nsubj |
| 27 | treats | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 class | acl:relcl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 take | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 take | aux |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tale | det |
| 33 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 tale | amod |
| 34 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Bedstead | case |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Bedstead | punct |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Gossip | det |
| 38 | Gossip | Gossip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Bedstead | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 Gossip | case |
| 40 | Bedstead | Bedstead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 tale | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expand | might · passive | this chapter | indefinitely property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | we not said here | the numerous stories | of the class | tree rules | |||
| 3 | treat | present | teller | of the class | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | future | we | the moral tale of the Gossip's Bedstead | by way of a conclusion to this chapter and the numerous stories | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell | the Gossip's Bedstead | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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