Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 39
[425] These two stories are quoted by Buslaef, in a valuable essay on "The Russian Popular Epos." "
Who acts: Buslaef · What happens: quote · To what, where: two stories
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 (Buslaef), 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 | _ | 2 425 | punct |
| 2 | 425 | 425 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 quoted | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 425 | punct |
| 4 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 stories | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 stories | nummod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quoted | aux:pass |
| 8 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Buslaef | case |
| 10 | Buslaef | Buslaef | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 quoted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 essay | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 essay | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 essay | det |
| 14 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 essay | amod |
| 15 | essay | essay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quoted | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 Epos | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Epos | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Epos | det |
| 19 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Epos | amod |
| 20 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Epos | amod |
| 21 | Epos | Epos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 essay | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Epos | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Epos | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 essay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | present · passive | Buslaef | this two stories | 425 obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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