Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 155
This story is merely one of the numerous Slavonic variants of a tale familiar to many lands.
Who acts: story, tale familiar · What happens: be, vary · To what, where: one
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 (story, tale familiar), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | cop |
| 4 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 variants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 variants | det |
| 8 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 variants | amod |
| 9 | Slavonic | slavonic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 variants | amod |
| 10 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 familiar | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 familiar | det |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 familiar | compound |
| 14 | familiar | familiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 variants | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 lands | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lands | amod |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 familiar | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this story | one | of the numerous Slavonic variants of a tale familiar to many lands; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vary | a tale familiar to many lands | nom variant «event 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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